New size/speed drive in old Dell Latitude XPi P133ST?

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I've got an old laptop that I still like to use, but it's drive has been
on it's last leg for like 2yrs (berrings going) and it's pathetically
small. The laptop has a 3GB limit from BIOS, and the formfactor is like
17mm instead of the now std. 9.5mm height. But, I was just thinking there
might be an adapter to make it fit? And also that I could maybe put in a
bigger drive and just have it only see 3GB of it? A small new drive would
be so cheap it'd be pointless to try to find a used one of the right size
if I don't have to. Plus, a new drive using only the outer 3GB would be
WAY faster. This think is a disgrace, there's probably CD-ROMs faster
than it is
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Fixer wrote:

> Reflash the bios to latest version and it should allow bigger drives me
> thinks

or stick linux on it, which will ignore the BIOS and see pretty much any
size drive.

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