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Adding External HD to laptop

Feb 8, 2005 4:54PM PST

Hello everyone! Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

Background:
Compaq presario x1022AP
1.2 GHz P-M
512 Ram
60 Gb TOshiba HD PCI ATA
Bought Nov. 2003
Questions:

For the external drive, can I add a 3.5 HD as an external because I want 120g of space and notebook HD's don't go that high. Will I have any problems?

Can I use SATA on my system? i've read everything i can on the net and there are some pretty c

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