Dell E1405 maximum hard drive upgrade?

I am thinking of upgrading the hard drive on my wife's Dell E1405. I was just curious if there is some kind of limit as to how big a drive I can get or is just whatever my wallet will tolerate?

I was thinking 320GB, but I was wondering if 500GB is possible? I would think that it is but I wasn't sure if the system is limited in some way. My wife is still using XP, we have the Vista upgrade disk but she is not sure if she wants to try it.

 

Both the 320gb drives and the 500gb drives will work in your wife's E1405.

If you do not want to be bothered with installing all of the programs and files again, you may want to check out imaging software like Acronis True Image.
You can download a free trial version from their website:
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/trueimage/

and here is a video guide, if you are interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj7iMAgji0I

K-TRON

 

Hi, thanks for the tip.

Actually I would like to do a fresh reinstall. We never did that when we first got the computer although I spent hours uninstalling all the Dell crap manually. After recently trying a reinstall on my own computer and seeing the difference I am a believer. I think a larger hard drive and clean slate would do wonders for her.

 

Good luck with the upgrade. If you need any advice post back here, and I am sure you will get a good answer in a few minutes

Her system will run nice and fast with the fresh operating system install

K-TRON

 

I would like a bit of help... I have an E1405 laptop as well, and recently purchased a new hard drive (WD Scorpio Black 320GB 7200RPM). After completing a disk clone with Acronis, I installed the new drive to find an amazing blue screen!

When I load the bios setup with "F2" I see that the primary hard drive is still listed as the original 118GB hard drive. I cannot change these values, and don't know how to make the bios detect my new drive. I assume this is the problem... anyone know what to do?