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Inspiron 9300 Hard Drive Size Limit

post #1 of 10
11/25/07 at 12:32am
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Just wondering to all those with an Ispiron 9300 what is the maximum supported hard drive size. According to dell chat it is 100Gb...but of course that doesn't mean anything. I have the 9300 with an SATA drive btw. Thanks
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post #2 of 10
11/25/07 at 3:17am
you have more options with sata, whatever is out there I think

dell chat just look at the inventory of spare drives and the replacement for what was available as original equipment

I have a pata 9300 and it can do 100gb 7200rpm or 250gb 5400rpm
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post #3 of 10
11/25/07 at 4:31am
160 GB. I have one in my i9300. That's as big as it will go with it though.
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post #4 of 10
11/25/07 at 4:30pm
Based on? Why not the 250gb? The physical size is identical and NTFS is NTFS. Maybe the interfaces are different?
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post #5 of 10
11/25/07 at 5:11pm
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Thanks for the replies and the reason I have been given is that the Inspiron 9300 BIOS has some sort of built in size limit for the hard drive.
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post #6 of 10
11/25/07 at 6:32pm
some guys here have the 5400rpm 250gb, at least in an xpsgen2 think also 9300, check search (if its working that is)
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post #7 of 10
11/25/07 at 6:34pm
there you go, did it for you

http://www.notebookforums.com/thread203987.html

cheers
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post #8 of 10
11/25/07 at 6:45pm
I am not positive why the i9300 is locked at 160 gb as it's largest. It's been almost a year since I put my 160gb into my i9300. But I did find out from several different sources that 160 was as high as you could go.
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post #9 of 10
11/26/07 at 7:24pm
Now I've read several different numbers. Perhaps flashing the BIOS to the modded XPS Gen 2 BIOS, like people do to go to the 7800GTX.
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post #10 of 10
1/9/08 at 12:34am
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Originally Posted by dgcaste View Post
Now I've read several different numbers. Perhaps flashing the BIOS to the modded XPS Gen 2 BIOS, like people do to go to the 7800GTX.
I know I'm bringing up an old post, but has anyone with the flashed bios tried a driver larger then 160gb on an 9300?
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