First post, by Cyber Akuma
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I was given an old Pentium 4 Laptop, it's listed as a "HP Omnibook xe4400s" and I saw the model number "CRVSA-02T1-90".
It's a pretty bulky thing, but I noticed that the bulk means that it can house a floppy drive, dvd-burner, and battery all at the same time without having to swap any of them. And it apparently has a discrete GPU. The only thing it's missing is a hard drive and the battery is shot, but it works off of AC ok (Though I will also need to find a proper AC adapter for it).
I figured this could be a good system to dualboot Windows98/XP on and use for older games. (Though, since it was designed for XP, finding drivers for Windows 98 might be an issue, if not impossible) but first, I need to put a harddrive in it.
I figured since 2.5 IDE/PATA drives are getting harder and harder to come by, I could just add some modern compatibility by using a cheap M.2 to 2.5 IDE adapter, that way I basically would have a "SSD" in it (Yeah I know it won't offer much benefit) and it would be easier to get parts.
The only question is, how big of a M.2 SATA should I get? I have no idea what it's max supported drive size is, and trying to Google it and downloading any manuals I could find didn't give any answers, only that the official OEM HDDs went up to 60GB.
Can anyone think of any way to determine what the largest supported drive would be before I waste money on a drive too big to be supported in it?
