Dell D830 latitude Maximum Hard Drive capacity

Yes, that type of drive will work fine.  Any 2.5" 9.5 mm or slimmer SATA notebook drive will work.

ok thats good - will most likely use ghost clone to expand my 3 partions from my 160GB accordingly to the larger 500GB drive - this should be sufficient for my usage for the life of this laptop.

Thanks for your help

Hi times have changed since your post, what about capacity. Will it take a 750 GB drive ?? Anybody know, as my Vista Business D830 2.2Ghz Dual Core with 4G RAM shuts off when on battery anytime from startup window to several minutes into operation  ... battery is OK I have two Dell D830 the other works fine with Vista with 350G HDD. Both with latest chipset and BIOS.

Problem appeared when the new drive and total install was completed ... also the hotter the unit gets the shorter the D830 with the 750G  drive "stays on" before suddenly dying without warning. The same thing happens when the power plug is taken out of the rear of the case .. unit stops instantly. All other threads found have offered no help so far on this "instant stop" problem, have tried everything I know ... no luck  ... is there another thread that addresses this "shut down" problem .. maybe it's the fingerprint reader "Biometric Coprocessor" have loaded the drivers but not the software. Any help appreciated ...

Not sure about 750GB drive. I don’t see any issues why it shouldn’t work. I changed the 160GB to 500GB using the Ghost clone and all is working well. The start-up is still slow – typically 3-4mins but that could be due to garbage that has been accumulated on the laptop over time and also with the many pieces of software that are installed. Its coming up to 5 years of usage soon and as long it stays stable till then I will be happy as it is work laptop till I change it. My OS is XP.

I can’t see why 750GB or more shouldn’t work – but maybe as you said the heat dissipated in the larger drive might an issue. Would it be possible to install the main drive in an external caddy and let it boot up from there and that’s should illuminate any heat issues. Sorry can’t help you anymore on the issue.

750 Gig drive works fine.  I prefer more diversity.  I buy 4 pieces of 250 gig drive for the cost of 1 750 gig drive.

I use a SATAWIRE to clone them and have exact copies.

Thanks .. have you made sure that "thorough" boot is not set in your BIOS ... that will reduce the boot time. Make surte that the quick boot is set ... it may reduce your boot up time. Regards Wayne.

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