hi guys, I have a dell xps 17 and I am thinking to purchase an extra Hard Drive - as I have an extra slot available. Ideally I don't want less than 1TB, maybe even more (probably not solid state as they are still too expensive) so I was wondering:
-how do I know if there is a limit to the capacity of the HD? In that can I buy up to 1.5TB for the sake of argument?
-How is it going to work when I boot up? On the current HD I have installed Ubuntu and Windowd 7 and at boot time I can choose which OS to run. On the new HD I am planning to install Ubuntu again but with a virtual copy of windows 7 and if everything goes well, I will probably remove Ubuntu from the first one, resize it and leave the proper copy of WIndows 7
any idea?
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Jump to Posthi guys, I have a dell xps 17 and I am thinking to purchase an extra Hard Drive - as I have an extra slot available
Well how much does your first HD have? Do you have a lot of files? Why do you need the extra volume? …
Jump to PostThe answer to that question is: "It's usually advertised with the hdd itself.
Advertised poorly. Manufacturers tend to advertise in increments of 1000 rather than 1024, so a 1GB drive is smaller than a binary minded person would expect. Throw in necessary formatting and system reserved space, and …
Jump to PostWell, if you only have 250GB a primary; then that changes things. I didn't think the xps 17 came with such a small hard-disk (my first generation xps 15 came with a 7200rpm 500gb, and that was the smallest option).
Assuming you only want to buy one hard disk, you …
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