HP's laptop 160GB harddrive is a "dual 80GB".  Will this be a single 160GB, OR an 80GB "C" and a 80GB "D"?
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I found this snippet on the net for you:\n\n"Hard Drive: The dv8220us has a unique hard drive array for a notebook--two separate 80 GB (5400 RPM) hard drives for a total storage capacity of 160 GB. They can work together to boost performance, particularly when handling large files, and you can use one as an exclusive media drive for saved TV programming and an MP3 library."\n\nThis would mean they they are in RAID 0 formation. They are working together as one which would mean they are both seen as a single 'Drive C:'
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Very easy to find on the internet:\n\nhttp://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/eng/Products/A5-133.htm\n\nRam: Maximum would be 768 SD Ram\n\nHard drive space is limited depending on what operating system / file system you are using. If you are using NTFS then almost any size hard drive will be recognized. If you are using an older operating system such as Windows 98 and have Fat or Fat32 installed then you will have troubles recognizing over 80g. The way around the old Fat limitation would be to partition your hard drive in partitions of less than 80g or try to find a patch from Microsoft that addresses the issue.\n\nPartitioning large harddrives is always a good idea though, as it limits defragmentation and keeps your hard drive running longer and smoother.
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There might be multiple partitions, i.e a 2GB C: drive and a 18GB D: drive. If this is the case then you can, of course, still use all of the drive the way it is, but if you wanted to make it all one partition you'd need to format the drive and reinstall windows.
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Beside the Perpendicular Recording Hard Drive as the name. It is just an 750 GB Hard Drive. In which the side of this hard drive is a good hard drive to have if you looking to buy one. Also you should found some third party software like diskeeper to keep it running smooth and run fast like it just install in your computer.
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i couldnt find a list so i leave you some links\n\n1st a collection of computer ads that might bring some light to this matter\n\nthere are some prices on the next link\n\non the last link you'll find comparison of Hard drive space
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Because of the size limitations within a notebook PC, there is nowhere to permanently install a second hard drive.  However most notebook manufacturers sell special trays that you can put a hard drive into (have one for my Latitude) and then replace the CD drive with the second hard drive.  (Sorry, you can not use both the CD and second hard drive at the same time.)\n\nAlso, you should be able to find on-line a USB caddy which will allow you to install the second hard drive into it, and then plug the caddy into a USB port and use the drive.  If your laptop has USB 2.0, it should work fine.  If you only have USB 1.1, it will crawl.  Because most laptop hard drives are more expensive per meg then desktop hard drives, it is often cheaper to just pay a regular "desktop" USB hard drive and use it rather than buying a laptop drive and a caddy.\n\nBoth solutions give you only part time access to the drive (unless you plan to take the USB caddy with you everywhere you go).  So you will not want to install programs or put data you need "all the time" onto the second drive.
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i searched for dv6130us, but hp returned result only for zv6130us. \nhere is the manual http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00364919.pdf\nrefer to section 5.3 . \nhope that helps
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Here's a wild thought. Check HP's website before asking someone else. MUCH quicker.\n\n\nSee the link:
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I work for HP Canada, and when I look at your computer, the most RAM it supports is 1024 MB (1 Gig).  We recommend a minimum memory total of at least 512MB. but you may want to install even more, especially if you work with several programs at a time or use memory-intensive software, such as image-editing software.\n(Keep in mind that sometimes BIOS updates and other hardware configurations can alter memory recommendations.)
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Your second hard drive needs to also be an Ultra ATA hard drive (the size can be whatever you need). The hard drive controller installed in your computer will support at least two hard drives, the second one installed is called the "slave" (if you encounter that question in the install instructions). 7200 RPM is standard (the speed that the drive spins) but if you can get something faster for a decent price, that would be a good upgrade. A faster RPM means less time to retrieve data and therefore better performance. If you have a Dell, I would start with their website as the starting point to get some idea of pricing. Also, pretty much every large electronics store has these types of hard drives as they are standard upgrades.
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There is nothing like that - ITS A MYTH.\nThe only thing that you should look for is \nA CPU above 2.0\nMemory above 1 GB\nHard Drive with 7200 RPM\nDVD-MULTI DL Drive with 16X Writing speeds.
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hi...\n\njust install the Power Quest Partition Magic 8.0...\n\nIt will help u lot about ur hard disk configuration...\n\n\ntake care
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There's nothing wrong with your drive or computer. The discrepancy you're seeing occurs because Windows (and nearly all other operating systems too) calculates hard drive sizes in a different manner than do drive manufacturers. One uses binary and the other uses decimal. Rather than writing it all out, read this below:\n\n""Marketing" capacity versus true capacity\n\nHard drive manufacturers often use the metric definition of the prefixes "giga" and "mega", whilst nearly all operating system utilities report capacities using binary definitions for the prefixes. This is largely for historical reasons, since when storage capacities started to exceed thousands of bytes, there were no standard binary prefixes. The IEC only standardized binary prefixes in 1999, so 210 (1024) bytes was called a kilobyte because 1024 is "close enough" to the metric prefix kilo, which is defined as 103 or 1000. This trend became habit and continued to be applied to the prefixes "mega," "giga," and even "tera." Obviously the discrepancy becomes much more noticeable in reported capacities in the multiple gigabyte range, and users will often notice that the volume capacity reported by their OS is significantly less than that advertised by the hard drive manufacturer. For example, a drive advertised as 200 GB can be expected to store close to 200 x 109, or 200 billion, bytes. This uses the proper SI definition of "giga," 109 and can be considered as an approximation of a gibibyte. Since utilities provided by the operating system probably define a gigabyte as 230, or 1073741824, bytes, the reported capacity of the drive will be closer to 186.26 GB (actually, GiB), a difference of well over 7 percent. For this very reason, many utilities that report capacity have begun to use the aforementioned IEC standard binary prefixes (e.g. KiB, MiB, GiB) since their definitions are unambiguous.\n\nAnother side point is that many people mistakenly attribute the discrepancy in reported and advertised capacities to reserved space used for file system and partition accounting information. However, for large (several GiB) filesystems, this data rarely occupies more than several MiB, and therefore cannot possibly account for the apparent "loss" of tens of GBs."\n\n\nIf you want to read the whole article, see here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_drives
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That my friend depends on the maximum capacity of your wallet and how much you are willing to part with.\n\nThe processor or the amount of ram have nothing to do with the size of the hard disk.
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No, both hard drives are 4.3 GB. Just check for bad clusters (format it) and if they are OK you can use them
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New HP with XP OEM has a D drive, this is your Windows Installation and Backup. C: is Primary Partition with OS files on it and stuff you download and install or just use. D: is the common Recovery Drive, you will see at Boot Boot? Restore? that restore is D:, it is why new PCs do not come with a physical Install Disk of Windows. Its a kinda neato idea, I am trashing XP for Linux, but still playing with winders now. I will leave D: on the partition just in case of a critical failure. \nBut that is the way Windows tells them to do it now, if you dont ask for an Install Disk, you dont get one, and you actually dont need one because that is Drive D:.
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well your ram i think is the quickest u can get and 160 gig hard drive is pretty big, so would say that not much outa date, for me i reckon if the computer does what you want it to do then it cant be out of date