hard drive upgrade question

[Kaitlin Kaschak459]

hello i have an HP Elitebook 8530p how big of a sata hard drive will the motherboard and bios handle i want to throw in a 2TB sata hard drive will my laptop support this if not whats the max size i can add to the laptop?

 

[i7Baby]

32bit - 1tb. 64 bit -5tb

 

[Kaitlin Kaschak459]

well how do i know if my laptop is 32 or 64 bit heres my cpu in the lappy

Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 @ 2.80GHz

 

[i7Baby]

Look in Control Panel, System

 

[Kaitlin Kaschak459]

how do i know if my bios will support a 2TB hard drive?

 

[i7Baby]

Its got nothing to do with your bios. Its your OS.

 

[Kaitlin Kaschak459]

os will be windows 7 ultinmate 64bit seeing as how my cpu is 64 bit cpu

 

[i7Baby]

Then you'll be fine with the 2tb sata drive