Chris, laptop drives are indeed laptop drives. All are 2.5" drives. The one dimension you have to worry about, as some said, is height. There are two common heights: 9mm and 12mm, and one older height: 17mm. Take yours out and measure it. Mine has a 9mm drive, but has a spacer I can remove to allow a 12mm drive. I also have to remove a cage and put that on any new drive. (I just upgraded my 12GB to a 40GB from newegg.com.) Each laptop also has a limit as to how much capacity the drive can handle. Any laptop that was working with a 20GB drive should work up to 120GB. Enjoy, Chris Schumann > Message: 1 > From: Chris Frederick <cdf123 at cdf123.com> > To: Twin Cities Linux User Group <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Organization: > Date: 20 May 2003 12:11:46 -0500 > Subject: [TCLUG] OT: Laptop hard drives > Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > This is probably off topic, but I don't know who else to ask and I'm > sure there are quite a few people here who could answer this. > > I'm running Linux on a Compaq Presario 2700 laptop, this cam with a 20 > gig hard drive. Now that I've gotten my CD library copied to mp3s, I'd > like to take it with me on the laptop. 20 gig is no longer enough > space, so I searched (a lot) on the HP website and found a 40 gig hard > drive for ~$500. I know that there's a lot in a laptop that's specific > to its model and make, but can't you use a hard drive from a different > manufacturer (say this one > http://page.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/auction/72856378?aucview=0x17), > or is the hardware on a laptop so locked together that you're stuck with > the original manufacturer's parts and high prices? > > Side note: I know desktop PCs follow a certain form factor (AT/ATX) to > make sure the parts are compatible, is there anything like that for > laptops? > > Thanks > -- > Chris Frederick <cdf123 at cdf123.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list