Originally Posted by ddt0725
Sorry Denise [A] I'll try to make it sound better next time []
According to the prouct specifications on the HP site, this should be your main board:
You're lucky! It has a lot of colors and I like colors []
Whoops, I have also made a big mistake. I talked about IDE connectors, but they are actually called PATA connectors. (Parallel Ata) I should have known that.
Most important for you is that I mentioned Sata and <span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]IDE Pata disks. This mainboard has 3<span style="text-decoration: line-through;"] IDE Pata data connections and 4 Sata data connections. The <span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]IDE Pata connections are the blue(floppy disk) and black connections in the bottom right corner and the connection on the middle right edge (next to the 24pin main board power connector). You can easily check if your current hard drive is connectred to either one of these connections.
The Sata connectors are the yellow, blue, black and white connector next to the two IDE connectors on the bottom right corner.
In short, first check if your current hard drive is connected by either Pata or Sata. <span style="font-size: large;"]Good news: if you still have the 400GB drive that was installed originally(according to the website), you're having a Sata disk, so this will all be very easy!
Since the HP website doesn't give any info on your power supply. I cannot tell you much about that, but since it powers this one, it should be able to power the new drive.
It's not a 5400RPM drive which I was talking about, but it's still a slower running hard drive than the regular ones(7200RPM).
It is a Sata drive, so it has to be connected in one of the four Sata connections. The hard drive will not be delivered with any cable. (and it might not even contain some screws). This isn't a problem if your old drive is also Sata as the website shows.
While it isn't the fastest driver there is, it does have a nice big buffer and it features Sata 6-Gbs(or Sata3) which is futureproof and if I'm not mistaken suitable for sata 3Gbs(or Sata 2) as well(which is on your ain board).
I don't have experience with installing Windows on this kind of drive so I don't know what performance you can expect. I'll do a little Googling, perhaps I can tell you more later.
Bottom line is that installing this hard drive shouldn't be too difficult [
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