? fitting bigger IDE to Compaq contura ?

My old Compaq contura aero 4/33c has got a nice LCD display,
for reading stuff which I've accumulated, when I travel.

Because the original IDE fitted is now full, I'd like to replace/add
a new big one.

As I remember I can't get it to do like a standard PC to IDE autodetect;
so I'd need to clone the existing IDE to the first partition of the new &
bigger IDE. But this would still be problematic if the new IDE had
different cylinders, heads ?

I'm told that most laptops have 2 slots. In which case I'd just be able
to install linux ...etc. to the 2nd IDE. But would the power supply
handle it ?

If it's only got one IDE slot, I'd have to buy an adaptor to copy the
original IDE's initialisation stuff.

Is this whole exercise unrealistic ?

Thanks for any info,

== Chris Glur.

I have an old Compaq LTE Elite
that works on a 15.GB HDD
with Win98SE, i got the HD to work by using Ontrack DiskManager,
maybe that can work for you...

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> My old Compaq contura aero 4/33c has got a nice LCD display,
> for reading stuff which I've accumulated, when I travel.
>
> Because the original IDE fitted is now full, I'd like to replace/add
> a new big one.
>
> As I remember I can't get it to do like a standard PC to IDE autodetect;
> so I'd need to clone the existing IDE to the first partition of the new
&
> bigger IDE. But this would still be problematic if the new IDE had
> different cylinders, heads ?
>
> I'm told that most laptops have 2 slots. In which case I'd just be able
> to install linux ...etc. to the 2nd IDE. But would the power supply
> handle it ?
>
> If it's only got one IDE slot, I'd have to buy an adaptor to copy the
> original IDE's initialisation stuff.
>
> Is this whole exercise unrealistic ?
>
> Thanks for any info,
>
> == Chris Glur.
>

Very, very few laptops can take two internal drives.

The exercise is not unrealistic but may take some work, and more son on
a Compaq than on some other models that are more generic.


news@absamail.co.za wrote:
> My old Compaq contura aero 4/33c has got a nice LCD display,
> for reading stuff which I've accumulated, when I travel.
>
> Because the original IDE fitted is now full, I'd like to replace/add
> a new big one.
>
> As I remember I can't get it to do like a standard PC to IDE autodetect;
> so I'd need to clone the existing IDE to the first partition of the new &
> bigger IDE. But this would still be problematic if the new IDE had
> different cylinders, heads ?
>
> I'm told that most laptops have 2 slots. In which case I'd just be able
> to install linux ...etc. to the 2nd IDE. But would the power supply
> handle it ?
>
> If it's only got one IDE slot, I'd have to buy an adaptor to copy the
> original IDE's initialisation stuff.
>
> Is this whole exercise unrealistic ?
>
> Thanks for any info,
>
> == Chris Glur.
>