Dell Latitude CPi

[allycat]

I have just been given a Dell Latitude Cpi. I would like to get a larger hard drive for it. Could you tell me whether there are any other makes of hard drive that would work with this laptop other than Dell?

Would I have to do anything once the hard drive is in place?


Thanks

[BipolarBill]

Tell us how old it is. How big is the current hard drive?

Any laptop drive should work. Toshiba drives are cheap and good.

[allycat]

The current hard drive is 4.75gb and it is about 4 years old running on windows 98.

[BipolarBill]

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...82E16822149006

It's out of stock right now, but worth waiting for.

I redid a 4 year old Compaq Armada recently and it took that drive fine. Anything bigger risks the BIOS not seeing it all.

BTW - update the BIOS first.

[allycat]

Thanks for your help. Do I just take the current hard drive out and put the new one in without having to do anything else? Is it easy to update the BIOS?

[BipolarBill]

http://support.dell.com/filelib/form...leaseid=r20255

That's the BIOS.

The drive will be raw when you install it. You will have to FDISK/format it and then install Windows.

[allycat]

Is there a way of updating the bios without being connected to the internet?

[BipolarBill]

Just download it to the PC you're on now, run it and use the floppy on the laptop.

Please read the page. I can't read it for you.

[allycat]

I will do that, thanks for al your help.