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Upgrade Inspiron 9300 (old laptop) 80gb to 320gb...

post #1 of 5
6/14/08 at 4:03pm
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I recently bought a Western Digital Passport Elite 320GB 5400RPM 2.5 Drive

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=408


My problem is my motherboard hard drive serial connection is different than the new hard drive connection.

I was going to swap my 80gb out for the 320gb but I end up seeing the port there is designed differently.


Could anyone show me some info about this. Because I have no clue about hard drive SATA serial port being changed or I bought the wrong thing...

Thank you!
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post #2 of 5
6/14/08 at 5:05pm
The early 9300 had IDE. The later ones were changed to SATA.
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post #3 of 5
6/14/08 at 5:16pm
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Originally Posted by mmzmaster View Post
I recently bought a Western Digital Passport Elite 320GB 5400RPM 2.5 Drive

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=408


My problem is my motherboard hard drive serial connection is different than the new hard drive connection.

I was going to swap my 80gb out for the 320gb but I end up seeing the port there is designed differently.


Could anyone show me some info about this. Because I have no clue about hard drive SATA serial port being changed or I bought the wrong thing...

Thank you!
You bought the wrong thing. You can't connect an SATA hard drive to your notebook. The largest-capacity IDE/ATA-6/PATA hard drive you can put in is 250GB, and I believe it, like the SATA drive you bought, is also made by Western Digital.
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post #4 of 5
6/14/08 at 7:00pm
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All right thanks... I guess I'll keep it as externally then. I'll see about my future laptop more like 2015+.. lol that time probably over 500gb stock HDD.
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post #5 of 5
6/14/08 at 8:33pm
you could send it back, think the biggest pata is 160gb 7200rpm

see ncix.ca for drives for reference

cheers
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