Hi folks,
I've got a question for you. My parent's Dell Dimention 4600 is using a 40GB hard drive, and I thought I'd help them out by adding another larger drive.
I've read somewhere that 4600 should support SATA hard drives, but when I ran Everest, it seems to be using an EIDE drive.
Is there a way I can tell if the computer can support a SATA hard drive without opening up the case? :giddy:
On a side note, if I were to completely replace the 40GB hard drive with a larger one (with more cache), can I do it without re-installing everything? There should be a way to simply copy the files from one HD onto the other without worrying about drivers, activation, etc.
btw, would they notice any improvement between SATA and EIDE? The current EIDE has just 2 MB of cache.
Thanks :unch:
I've got a question for you. My parent's Dell Dimention 4600 is using a 40GB hard drive, and I thought I'd help them out by adding another larger drive.
I've read somewhere that 4600 should support SATA hard drives, but when I ran Everest, it seems to be using an EIDE drive.
Is there a way I can tell if the computer can support a SATA hard drive without opening up the case? :giddy:
On a side note, if I were to completely replace the 40GB hard drive with a larger one (with more cache), can I do it without re-installing everything? There should be a way to simply copy the files from one HD onto the other without worrying about drivers, activation, etc.
btw, would they notice any improvement between SATA and EIDE? The current EIDE has just 2 MB of cache.
Thanks :unch: