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HELP My laptop only has 3GB hard drive!!!!

Mar 26, 2005 9:56PM PST

I went to My Computer and under Local Disk it says that there is 421MB of free space and 3.02 GB of Total Size. So this laptop only has 3GB hard drive??? This laptop is about 5 years old, it's a Dell Latitude CP Intel Pentium MMX processor, 233Mhz and 128MB of RAM.

It's always telling me that I'm low on disk and low on virtual memory,(but I think I fixed the virtual memory thing). What's the maximum GB hard drive I can put on it and where can I find it cheap?

Thanks Happy

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"8 Gig -a-Byte"
Mar 27, 2005 12:57AM PST

You can buy a 20, 40, or 80 for under a 100 bucks at most places on the web, but you have to break them up into separate 8gb drives.

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OK... what websites could I go to?
Mar 27, 2005 1:53AM PST

Could I find it in any retail stores such as Circuit City, Best Buy? What do you mean by breaking them into separate 8GB drives?

Thanks for the info, though. Happy

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"A few Google Sites"
Mar 27, 2005 2:48AM PST

Here are a few picked up from Google.
I use Computergate:
http://www.computergate.com/products/prodlist.cfm?prodseq=G3HI03

You can also search
http://www.pricewatch.com/

Another site with drives

http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:SimpleTech%20Dell%20Latitude%20Cp%20Cpi%20Hard%20Drive:1990458177

This is the DELL site and page that says that a 20 Gig drive was shipped with a latitude CP. If this is a second hand then perhaps the drive was replaced. Check out the DELL site for tools and Downloads.
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kb/en/document?dn=1042171&c=us&l=en&s=gen&cs=

Norm

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Thanks...
Mar 27, 2005 4:12AM PST

Will these sites tell me what the maximum this laptop can take?

Thanks.