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Replacing IDE drive with SATA drive

Luckycharms_74 · 2009-03-27 08:37:34

Hi There Is it possible to replace the current hard drive in my laptop IDE 80gb with a 320gb SATA drive. Any help would be appreciated.

27-03-2009 9:37am

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Luckycharms_74

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Hi There

Is it possible to replace the current hard drive in my laptop IDE 80gb with a 320gb SATA drive.

Any help would be appreciated.

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#2 27-03-2009 9:41am

Tom Dunne

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I'd say you would need to change the controller, which I would think is hard to do on a laptop, if it even is possible.

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#3 27-03-2009 9:44am

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Short answer, No, unfortunately, as I have a few laptops which are IDE and could use a storage bump aswell.

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