Hi, Derek.

Derek W. Keoughan wrote:
> Jim Showalter wrote:
>> My Compaq Presario has a 40GB hard drive, which has become too small. I 
>> contacted Compaq(HP) support and they tell me that HP sells a 60GB 
>> ATA-100 EIDE 4200RPM 2.5" form factor drive for $559.
> 
> 2.5" is a laptop drive... desktop drives are 3.5" wide.
> 
> Are you talking laptop or desktop?
> 
> Either way - $559 for 60GB is insane.
>
It is a laptop, and I thought "Criminal" for the asking price. :-) I 
figured it should be under $100.

>> Can any drive which meets the above criteria probably replace my drive, 
>> which I can probably find for one heck of a lot less?
> 
> I think "heck" is far too weak a word to apply to a $559
price compared 
> to what you should pay... :)
> 
> About $60 for 80GB in 3.5" is quite reasonable... you didn't say how 
> much you want to add, but you don't need to retire the old drive if 
> you're just adding space, though.  Chances are with a 40GB you're 
> talking ATA and have to worry about Master/Slave settings... set the 
> CD-ROM or DVD in the system to slave and put the new drive on the same 
> cable (if the existing hard drive and optical drive are on different 
> cables, that is), and it should boot up, and add that much space to the 
> new one.
> 
> With a laptop, you don't have a choice in most - there's only one spot 
> to put a new hard drive, and you'll have to replace the old one, not add 
> to it.  With an adapter, you can copy the old partition to a new drive 
> using a desktop system, or I'd be happy to discuss doing this for you if 
> you give me a shout.

I have an external USB drive I use for backups. I can use DFSee to copy 
to that from my existing drive and restore to the new one after 
replacement. It's a little slow since my laptop only has USB 1.1, not 
2.0, but I can get some yard work done while it's running :-)

> 
> Hope this helps!
> 

It does indeed. Thank you.


 
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