Maximum hard drive size in my laptop?

MothballsWallet

How do I find out the maximum size of hard drive my Compaq Presario V2418AU laptop can take? There's nothing mentioned in its manual, and nothing listed in the specs on the Compaq/HP website.

It came with a 40GB drive, and I'd like to upgrade it because it's filling up

enigma52

what os you got?

Lokolo

Any reason why you don't just get an external USB one?

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/-/2145/1412/-/9752949/Seagate-Expansion-500GB-External-USB-Desktop-Hard-Drive/Product.html?searchtype=genre

£50 and you'll never need to buy another one.

MothballsWallet

enigma: OS is XP Home with SP3.

Lokolo: I'd like to put a bigger hard drive in so that I can set up multi booting of Windows and Linux.

Lokolo

http://www.ebuyer.com/cat/Hard-Drives/subcat/2.5%22-Laptop-IDE-Hard-Drives

Assuming its IDE. I can't find on the interweb whether the laptop is IDE or SATA.

Baldur

This US site suggests that for the V2418AU a 160GB PATA (IDE) drive is compatible - http://www.comptick.com/cq-v20at-160.html