I have a Dell Dimension 8400 with 3GB of RAM and a 3.2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 HT processor, it currently has a 145GB HD and I want to REALLY upgrade it to use it as a media center PC. I want to put a 1 to 1.5 TB HD in it. Now I have read that it is limited to 320GB, 500GB, and that it has no limit. I...

Hello, I have a Compaq Presario 2108CL laptop using Windows XP SP2. I have a 60GB IDE hard drive, and would like to upgrade to 160GB. I was told by HP Support Chat that the max size hard drive for this model is 80GB. I was told by a computer technician that with Windows Service Pack 2,...

OK, I've decided to merge the two computers together, using the memory and HD of the Celeron to enhance the AMD Athlon XP unit. Background: https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/desktops/amd-athlon-xp-vs-celeron-2-0-a-251988.html QUESTION: The Celeron computer has a 60g HD, NTFS, Windows XP Pro on it,...

I like Vista, but it annoys me that it takes up so much place on my hard drive. More than half of it! I tried playing with the visual options and managed to save some disk space but it is still HUGE. Do you know any tricks to save some more space. I don't need any special effects and special visual...

Howdy. I recently purchased a 500gb hard drive, hooked it up as the master (cable select on, plugged to end of IDE cable) drive on the secondary IDE channel of the motherboard then initialized and formatted it in WinXP SP2. Once this was done, the drive was recognized as "healthy, working" in...