I have a 7 year old Dell Dimension 2350. Recently it crashed and figured it's probably the hard drive so I am deciding to replace the hard drive and found a good deal on the Western Digital Caviar: 500GB EIDE/PATA Internal Hard Drive. What I want to know, will there be any issues if I upgrade to a higher hard drive than it did? I believe the old hard drive was around 30GB. And using Windows XP Can anyone help me? Thanks.
ahh supposedly they can run sata and pata, thats cool, didnt know that. the only possible issue is whether XP can recognise 500GB HDD, im not to sure about that, maybe you would have multiple partitions or get something extra, not to sure
Windows XP won't be the problem, it's whether your BIOS supports such hdd or not. A bit of Googling seems to indicate that it does though. The only problem is the maximum partition size in XP, I believe with FAT32 you had a limit (unless you use some 3rd-party partition utility), with NTFS there is no limitation. Off-topic ... here is some interesting read about upgrading the Dell 2350: http://mr-ives.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-not-to-build-gaming-pc-from-dell.html
should be fine. just make sure the computer supports it. might need to update drivers to support a 500gb hdd. seeing at the computer is so old.
