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Laptop HDD Upgrade from 160Gb to 500Gb

by clairvoye Jun 2, 2009 6:10PM PDT

I own Gateway MT6821 Laptop. It came with 160GB HDD and has 945GM Mobile chipset. I want to upgrade the HDD to 500Gb. I contacted Gateway support, they said I can upgrade till 320gb only.

Can I upgrade it to 500gb? Does it have any Bios restrictions?

Thanks

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Well, duh!

by Coryphaeus Jun 2, 2009 9:46PM PDT

Chipset and motherboard are the limiting factor.

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Your dime here.

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jun 2, 2009 10:22PM PDT

I see you called in. While I have yet to hit limits on SATA connected drives what they told you is what they have tested it with. Yes it might work but if it doesn't then you have no where to turn to.

Why not 320?
Bob

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Laptop HDD Upgrade from 160Gb to 500Gb

by clairvoye Jun 3, 2009 10:16PM PDT

Thanks for the info.

Today I sent an email to Gateway support abt HDD and RAM. Reply I got is "You may upgrade your memory to to 4 GB DDR2 . The computer supports SATA hard drive"
They didnot mention anything abt the Capacity.

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That seems conflicting information ...

by Kees Bakker Jun 3, 2009 10:41PM PDT

from Gateway. Your choice now:
- contact them a third time and accept the majority vote.
- try a 500 Gb 2.5" SATA drive and see it it works.

Kees

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