Toshiba Satellite laptop

[The Lady Slayer]

My gfs laptop is starting to run really slowly, now that it's about 4 years old.

It only has an 80Gb HDD with XP installed.

Does anyone know if there is anything I need to know before I swap out the hard drive for a bigger one and reinstall Windows?

Will I be blocked by any default BIOS settings, or will I be fine just to tinker around with it?

 

[buwish]

You should be fine doing that. Just make sure you get the correct interface in regard to the new hard drive.

 

[RetiredChief]

In addition to swapping out the HDD and re-installing XP, Have checked to make sure the Memory is maxed out (has it got 2 x 512 Megs installed, but can hold say 2 x 1 Gig of ram. Adding ram really can make a difference on older laptop performance.

 

[The Lady Slayer]

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