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    Can I upgrade my HD?

    Discussion in 'Fujitsu' started by urxtream, Nov 25, 2006.

  1. urxtream

    urxtream Notebook Consultant

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    I was thinking of buying an external hard drive as I've only got 5GB available on my hard drive now. However, after giving some thought, I thought maybe I could swap my current hard drive as it's a 4200rpm hard drive which is pretty slow to the current standards.

    Can anyone tell me whether the hard drive I have now (100GB) is IDE or ATA or SATA? or whatever it is. I'm not good with computers so please be patient with me. Or at least tell me how I can find that out?

    If the hard drive I have now is IDE can I upgrade it to a SATA hard drive? and use the IDE as an external hard drive?

    Any comments and help is greatly appreciated.

    Thanks
     
    urxtream, Nov 25, 2006
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  2. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    To find out what controller your HDD uses, go to My Computer>Hardware tab>Device Manager. There will be a list of all the devices Windows recognizes on you laptop. Search for IDE/ATA/SATA.

    With regards to your last question, you probably cannot upgrade from IDE to SATA. Whatever you do though, you can by a HDD enclosure w/ USB for use as an external HDD.
     
    Bog, Nov 25, 2006
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  3. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    No, you will not be able to upgrade to a SATA drive. They use a different pin interface, so it is physically impossible.

    However, IDE drives are still in abundance. Check www.newegg.com.
    You might want to look at this 160GB 5400RPM drive for $174.99.

    If you don't mind my asking, how did you fill up 95GB?
     
    Greg, Nov 25, 2006
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  4. urxtream

    urxtream Notebook Consultant

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    A combination of Movies, Music and lots of programs and games.

    So what you're saying is. I can only upgrade to an IDE hard drive?

    if that's the case is it more convenient to just purchase an external hard drive and leave my laptop as is?

    Thanks
     
    urxtream, Nov 25, 2006
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  5. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Buy a faster internal drive for your notebook and put the old one in a case for extra storage and the like. The speed bump will be quite noticeable.
     
    ZaZ, Nov 25, 2006
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