'The Dimension 8300 supports the following:. 3.0GHz Pentium 4 processor that utilizes an 800MHz front side bus. Dual-channel DDR-SDRAM memory running at 400MHz. Several video card options including the new ATI Radeon 9800 PRO, Radeon 9800, and the NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX card. Ultra ATA-100 hard drive capacities of up to 200GB'While I think you won't be able to tell the difference between those drives except for size, did you check with Dell if your new drive will work?
And what OS will you be installing?Bob. I have a similar question, so I've added it to this thread.I'm looking to add a second drive to my Dell Dimension 8300, running Windows XP SP3.The existing drive is a 120GB Hitachi IC35L120AVV207-1 Deskstar.I'd like to add a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS.How can I work out if this can be installed in my Dell? There's nothing on the Western Digital or Dell sites that I can find that tells me if this is possible. The technical specifications say that 'available devices' are 'ATA-66 or ATA-100 Ultra DMA hard drive, serial ATA drive'.The interface for the Western Digital drive is given in the specs as serial ATA-300. (Does this mean I can use it on my Dell but not at 'full speed'?)Any pointers or suggestions much appreciated. Hi BobThanks for your reply. It does not matter that you are running XP SP3.
Download lagu glenn fredly terserah bursamp3. It does matter what the version of your XP CD is. If said CD is XP SP2 then we have no issues here.
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At least none with the OS. The next area is how the BIOS was set. Did you choose IDE emulation or did you install XP with SATA DRIVERS?
This is Windows 7 Home Premium. I have the original re-install disks (OS + drivers). Seeing as I keep my computers running 'clean & mean' I've thought about the clone option but I have no problem starting from scratch. I'm terribly organized, so I'm all set if I want to re-install all my programs and such. I just get the important stuff first, and re-install the rest as needed.
I'm retired, so I can't say I'm pressed for time. My own personnal files are backed up multiple times and I'll still have the old HD available anyway. Newer Dell PCs that have SSD installed don't have the 'recovery partition' present.
That increases the available media space and SSD supplied by OEM vendors generally are intended to increase space. In some cases these are installed by the OEM as probable fast boot and any 2nd HD as the real workhorse for storage. The TRIM cmd. Should be present on any PC not XP OS, but that's not always a given but usually is for newer Win 7 and above. As SATA issues that won't be a problem, the bios should handle all that, just be aware of SATA port are active for RAID or not thus use the proper selected #ports. Before you install anything and have your current PC setup, update the Dell bios to handle any new changes.
Ie: If you have A07 and now A12 is the newest it maybe prudent to update but with the 'as is' h/w now present. That's an optional, but i find Dell bios updates levels can be wide.tada -Willy. After installing the Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD in the desktop, it went so well that I decided to instead put that one in a laptop, and ordered another 1GB SSD for the desktop. I used the cloning method, using an Apricorn USB 3.0 adapter, which came with a CD for an easy to use cloning utility.
Cloning 240 GB of data took 59 minutes. The Samsung SSDs come with a CD to install some sort of utility, but I'll tell ya, I couldn't figure out what it was supposed to do; I didn't see the term 'copy' or 'clone' anywhere. Tamil sun tv serial actress photo. I highly recommend the Apricorn; you can even opt to not transfer your data files.The only quirks I saw, and it happened all 3 times, was that System Restore points didn't make it through the process, probably because the settings all changed. 'C-drive' System Restore was 'off', but Recovery and secondary internal drives were now 'on'.
Not a problem, but it's something to make sure is checked and re-set up. The other thing is Google Chrome lost it's extensions (only 2, AdBlock & WOT) and homepage settings - for some reason. Also, expect saved cookies to disappear.It's certainly all worth it. Start-up time went from 1.5 min to 23 seconds, and everything else is quite snappy. One oddity is that although a cold start-up is 23 seconds, coming out of hibernation takes 29 seconds.
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