Hard drive for Dell Inspiron 5000e - place to buy

[Bill Schoolcraft]

richard childers / kg6hac wrote:
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> That having been said, you may also want to consider replacing your
> current hard drive with something larger; many laptops issued with 10 GB
> hard drives - the limit, at their time of manufacture - can easily
> contain 20, 30 or 40 GB hard drives, now that drive manufacturers can
> pack two, three or four times as much data into the predetermined form
> factor.

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Seeing the age of the laptop/computer "Dell Inspiron 5000e" make sure
your BIOS has the capacity to "SEE" the full size of the larger drives. 
I have a fairly new Toshiba-1715xcds and it would not see a 30-gig drive
but saw a 20-gig drive fine.