Upgrading from 250 gig hard to a 500 gig hard and says mismatch. my first hard drive is dead

The 400W PSU is going to limit your CPU selection to dual-core at best, although you might be able to get away with a higher-end dual-core CPU if your RAM is not ECC and not dual-channel, and you're not running anything serious in terms of a graphics or sound card or a SCSI array.

Given your current setup I'd really look for a 1.6Ghz dual-core Athlon which has a decent amount of KB in its Level 1 and Level 2 cache, but 3MB for its Level 3 cache.

Anything beyond that ballpark of a CPU upgrade is certainly well within the bounds of diminishing returns, and you should look at getting a new PSU, motherboard, and probably RAM (I'm guessing you're using DDR2 RAM currently).

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No it won't BUT the BIOS may not support a 500 Gb hard disk, it will see it as a smaller capacity hard drive.

Yes BUT the BIOS may not support a 500 Gb hard disk, it will see it as a smaller capacity hard drive.

yes .. you can always upgrade your hard drive

check wd website for new drivers

From what i have read it is an IDE hard drive and any size shouls work. I would take drive out to be sure and stick to a 120 GIG or 160 GIG. That way it should be recognized without having to do a complicated bios flash. Good Luck

Hello there:
you may want to unplug the device for 3 min and hold in the power button or the reset button for 30 seconds and than power the device back up and see if this helps If not go to control panel and click on system and look for the device manager and see if it is listed there if it is click on the device and where it says remove say yes than click yes again than shut down and restart the computer and the found new hardware will start up and reinstall the device again for you. ok? please keep me informed how this is going,
best regards mike

diconnect 40 g while install windows on the 250g seems like it is picking up windows off the other one while installing

hi there,
you Dell Latitude D610 can support large hard drives from 100gigs up to 250gigs ... but i very much think this is the limitation of your system bios if u are looking to go higer ... u might need to upgrade your system bios.....

you're right, the hard drive is dying, you need to get an external hard drive and dump the entire contents onto it, or if you have another pc, you can network them and dump the files onto the other pc. ( personally, I recommend the former, you can now get external hard drives from 250 to 500 Gb quite cheaply )