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Blue Ghost · June 3rd, 2008, 12:52 PM

I recently had my old Dell Inspiron 8600 come back to life. It had been sitting unused for over a year due to thinking it had died. On a whim I turned it on and it has been working fine for a week now. Back when we thought it was going I was sure it was the hard drive due to the noises coming from it and messages such as hard drive not found and such.

Now, I know that it is roughly 4 years old but I would like to upgrade it and get a few more years out of it. Its always been a steady reliable laptop and I would like to see what I can do for it vice buying a new one.

My big question is Memory and Hard drive. I have been running in circles here trying to figure out what to buy in both regards. It currently has dual 256 for memory and a 60 Gb Hard drive. I really wanted to run 120Gb and maybe 1 Gb Memory but am at a loss as to what products to buy to get me there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. (I know the dell site lists some accessories to upgrade to but I try to stay away from their site.)

June 3rd, 2008, 12:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
Blue Ghost Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1	Dell Inspiron 8600 Hard drive I recently had my old Dell Inspiron 8600 come back to life. It had been sitting unused for over a year due to thinking it had died. On a whim I turned it on and it has been working fine for a week now. Back when we thought it was going I was sure it was the hard drive due to the noises coming from it and messages such as hard drive not found and such. Now, I know that it is roughly 4 years old but I would like to upgrade it and get a few more years out of it. Its always been a steady reliable laptop and I would like to see what I can do for it vice buying a new one. My big question is Memory and Hard drive. I have been running in circles here trying to figure out what to buy in both regards. It currently has dual 256 for memory and a 60 Gb Hard drive. I really wanted to run 120Gb and maybe 1 Gb Memory but am at a loss as to what products to buy to get me there. Any help would be greatly appreciated. (I know the dell site lists some accessories to upgrade to but I try to stay away from their site.)