Laptop HD Question.

[Bkelly]

I'm looking for a hard drive for my laptop Dell inspiron 2200

Can anyone recommend a drive for my laptop. It Originally came with a 40GB drive which has passed away. I would like to add a drive with larger capacity if possible rather than ordering a replacement 40GB from Dell.

The interface is IDE-6 but mostly I can only find larger capacity drives with ide-100.
Can anyone help since I don't know much about Laptop HDs and don't want to buy something incompatable.

 

[semi-pro waster]

IDE hard drives should auto-negotiate so if the drive is capable of working at the faster speed it will simply force itself to work at the slower speed that the controller is capable of.

It isn't an exact figure but previously it used to be said that you could generally install hard drives up to around 3x the capacity of the old hard drive without issues, I've personally installed drives 4x the size on a few occasions without issues but I can't guarantee that it will be fine for you.