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Upgrading hard drive in a inspiron 1520
Need help to decide which is the best hard drive to update my old one, I have a Inspiron 1520 with a 160gb ata drive, can any one suggest choices for a new one that will be compatible with Vista 32 and my computer, I am looking at a 500GB. I don't know if a SATA drive will work in the computer??
also which mirror software program is best to upgrade the hard drive, one that is easy and will do the job.
thank you for your help
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September 13th, 2009 15:00
Hardware: you can use any 2.5" 9.5 mm SATA notebook drive.
Software: you CANNOT simply clone the existing drive as it is. Read below for the details.
http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/mediadirect.htm
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September 14th, 2009 12:00
Thank you ejn63, for your help, one more thing aren't the connections different for ATA and SATA hard drives
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September 14th, 2009 18:00
Yes, they are - the 1520 uses SATA -- not PATA.