Can install today’s notebook hard drives in 9 year old Compaq Presario notebook?
I have an old Compaq Presario 1825 notebook. It originally came with a very small hard drive, less than 10 GB. Since then, I replaced the HD with a Hitachi 30 GB, and had no problems. Now, however, if I buy a new hard drive, maybe a Samsung 120 or 160 GB, will this old laptop recognize it, or will the new hard drive somehow exceed the old laptop’s ability to recognize storage space and not function?
I think the connectors are still the same, aren’t they?
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I suggest that you check first your laptop’s manual and check the capacity limitation. I think a Pentium II computer cannot acknowledge a higher capacity harddisk. You may also check the website of the harddrive you intend to install and see how you can go around with it. They might have a utility program to do it.
Most new hard drives are SATA. Your old notebook as IDE. There are two different connectors and technologies. The old machine is probably not going to see all of a drive larger than, say 40G, if that much. There may be a bios flash still available if you get really lucky.