Looking to buy a new harddrive

The General

I am looking for a 500GB or above one

The biggest on komplett is 320Gb http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=307497&cks=PRL

Anyone got any ideas?

angelofdeath

does it have to be ide? http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=314041&cks=PRL

WizZard

I think that's the largest IDE drive available. To get a larger size you would have to go SATA.

The General

i think the two i have are IDE would i have to take them out to check or is there another way

angelofdeath

tell us the make and model of your motherboard and we'll tell you

$ausage$

you can get a hitachi or cms 500GB IDE Hard drive. I would really like to know why you want one drive? i would rather have 2 200GB drives i would cry if it broke.

500GB

The General

angelofdeath wrote:

tell us the make and model of your motherboard and we'll tell you

how can i find that out

angelofdeath

hrmm, if you don't know that then i don't think you should be looking to buy and install a harddrive by yourself, be safe go for the ide and get someone to install it for you

The General

angelofdeath wrote:

hrmm, if you don't know that then i don't think you should be looking to buy and install a harddrive by yourself, be safe go for the ide and get someone to install it for you

:rolleyes: is there anyway i finding out without opening the PC

angelofdeath

if it's an ami bios, try this program, otherwise write down the bios id string (long list of numbers at startup) and put it in here
or open up the computer and look for the manufacturers name, your gonna have to open it up anyway if you want to install a new harddrive

m_stan

Run this util and look under "Main Circuit Board" in its results. That'll tell you what board you have and what BIOS version it's running:

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html