Tom's Hardware > Forum > Laptops & Notebooks > General Laptops & Notebooks > Maximum Hard Drive Size for HP Pavilion ZT3000

Maximum Hard Drive Size for HP Pavilion ZT3000

Forum Laptops & Notebooks : General Laptops & Notebooks - Maximum Hard Drive Size for HP Pavilion ZT3000

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
youare   10-21-2008 at 06:05:51 PM

hi, i have an hp pavilion zt3000. i am planning to upgrade it's hard drive to the highest size it can be supported at todays date. i found that the highest EIDE for notebooks is 250gb made by WD (WD2500BEVE). will it support anything that is EIDE ATA6 regardless the size? will it support that WD2500BEVE 250gb hd? thanks.

Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
Bronze Laptops badge frozenlead   10-21-2008 at 08:30:16 PM
- 0 +

To my knowledge the HDD interface does not limit the size of the disc, only it's throughput. Any disc that has the same interface as the last should be compatible. Buy as big as you need.

I might warn you, though - notebook hard disks are more expensive than desktop discs. Are you sure you can't just link up an external hard disk with twice the capacity for around the same price?

Reply to frozenlead
Anonymous   03-24-2009 at 08:32:42 PM
- 0 +

I installed the Western Digital 250GB hard drive in my zt3000 and never got it to work properly. I kept getting corrupted system files such that it wouldn't boot after shutting down. I tried several disks with the same results. At first I thought it might have been software related (it still may be), but when I restored my smaller drive, everything went back to normal. This tends to support the hardware being the problem, not the software.

If anyone has any ideas, I'm certainly open to them given that I wasted days on this problem.

Reply to Anonymous
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Laptops & Notebooks > General Laptops & Notebooks > Maximum Hard Drive Size for HP Pavilion ZT3000
Go to:

There are 1196 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.689 seconds
Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them
How do I win badges?