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January 20, 2010 at 03:18 PM
jiminpa

Upgrading to a bigger hard drive

by jiminpa . Updated 16 years, 5 months ago

I have a Dell Inspiron 600M with a 30Gb hard drive. It currently only has 500Mb left available on it. I would like to put a bigger drive in it which should seem simple enough but here is my dilemma.

I read somewhere that when you upgrade as a rule of thumb you should never go more than double your current capacity but it didn’t say why. I would just as soon walk into my local computer store and buy a drive than order one online plus a 160Gb drive is cheaper than a 40 or 80. Is upgrading to a 160 really going to give me issue? If so is there a way to overcome said issue? Anyone have any words of wisdom or tips?

Windows XP is the OS

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