You won't know until you try it, or someone else responds back that they have
installed a hard drive of a certain size. Neither HP/Compaq nor any of the
other name-brand manufacturers bother to disclose the BIOS hard drive
limitations on their systems, whether notebook or desktop, so it is almost
always a guess.

Given the relative age of the M300 and its BIOS, I am pretty certain that the
system will accept a 30GB drive, just under one of the famous hard-coded BIOS
limits of 32GB... Ben Myers

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:26:31 -0300, Matamanolos wrote:

Matamanolos wrote:
wrote:
On Feb 8, 3:36 pm, Matamanolos wrote:
Hi, please I need help. The HDD on my old Pentium 2 Compaq Armada
M300 is dying and I want a new one.

Standard IDE 2.5" ide drive. Googling on "m300 Hard drive" turns up
drives as large as 100GB.

So it probably has the 137GB limit. Anything under that size should bo
OK.

Thank you very much. I don't know about notebooks and I was afraid of
any hardware limitations.

Uh. I have to ask again. Some guy who has a 80G Toshiba HDD told me that
I can't put a big disk on my notebook because the Bios wouldn't support it.
I don't see any settings on the Bios to let me change the HDD
configuration (cylinders, sectors, etc). Probably he's right and I have
to go with a small HDD, 6G or 12G maybe.

Thanks!