D250 HDD Upgrade - SATA compatibility

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    Thefabpt

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    I want to upgrade my D250's 160GB disk, and I need to know whether a SATA 2 disk (which is all that seems to be available here in Australia) will work with the installed disk controller, which I assume is SATA 1. Has anyone done this and had success? Does anyone know whether the controller is SATA 1 or SATA 2?
     
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    Don't worry. It will just run at the slower standard.
     
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    an 500Gb hard drive is suported ?
    :shock:
     
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    How large can we go with the Aspire One as far as HDD capacity goes? I can get a SATA 500 Gb drive here but wonder if the BIOS will support it with XP Home on my ZG5.

    Not being greedy here but am curious how large it can get!
     
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    i"m curios too to find out.
    theoreticaly every new HDD should be suported ( even bigger as 1TB ).
    if somebody change the original HDD with a bigger one, please share your experience !
     
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    You can now download the SATA drivers from Acer support website http://gd.panam.acer.com/home/ the drivers was just posted on 12/8/2009 along with several updated drivers
     
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    Thanks for your replies, folks. I've tried the upgrade, by creating an image copy of the C:\ partition (including the Master Boot Record) using Norton Ghost, switching drives, and restarting. The system can't find the boot record, so I'm stopped. Any suggestions on hoew to proceed? Ghost will only copy one partition, not the entire contents, and since the service partition has no letter, I don't know where to go next. HELP!!!
     
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