Howdy!,

My HP a1430n XP SP3 pc has a AMD 3800+ Dual Core CPU and has been acting
very slow when starting up or when I start a program.

I've been thinking if I replaced the 250GB HDD with a 2TB HDD it might
speed up the pc's performance with more Free Space on the HDD.

The 250GB SATA HDD has 2 Partitions:

The C:\ Partition is NTFS and has 194GB Used with 30GB Free = 224GB Total

The D:\ Partition is FAT32 and has 8.06GB Used with 434MB Free = 8.48GB Total

The pc has 3GB DDR 400 RAM and uses a 8.9GB Pagefile.sys file.

The price difference of a 1TB to a 2TB HDD isn't very much, so that is
why I think the 2TB HDD is the better choice.

Some time ago I replaced the 160GB HDD in a Vista notebook with a 1TB HDD
so I want to give the XP computer a larger HDD now.

Would a 2TB HDD be the better idea over a 1TB HDD for my XP pc?

I want to keep the XP Operating System on it as I think the hardware in
it may not be good enough for any of the newer MS Operating Systems.

Also, iirc I think some of the WinTen "features" are being pushed to users
of Win7 pcs so I may not want to go to Win7 because of that.

I'm just stuck in the mud, so to speak.

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