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    Installing New Hard Drive in Presario 1201T

    Discussion in 'HP' started by bja1288, Jul 29, 2007.

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    THe original drive, a Hitachi DK23BA-10 was ATA-5 format (IDE) and all newegg has are ATA-6 drives. Is this basically the same format, and will an ata-6 work in this laptop?
     
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    bump. is ata-6 hard drive backwards compatible?
     
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    All new ATA standrad drives should be backwards compatible with older ATA standards. So, ATA-6 should be compatible with ATA-5,4,3 etc.

    Do not get SATA drives since they are basde on a different standard.
     
    miner, Jul 30, 2007
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