Notebooks & Netbooks

[AlShack]

Hi

I have an Acer 4810TZG laptop which I would like to install the Western Digital Black Dual drive (www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1190) in.

I've been informed by Acer that the machine will only support up to 500GB hard drives, but I tried to explain that the primary drive will be 120GB (the SSD part) ,and that the 1TB hard drive will be seen as a separate partition. I have already upgraded the RAM to 8GB and currently have a 500GB hard drive in.

I tried a different 1TB drive and it didn't work.  I tried a clean install of Windows form the Restore DVD abd also cloning my existing drive, but each time I got so far & came up against an issue (in most cases Windows Update woud not work and some drivers failed).

Anyone know if this WD drive will work?

Cheers

Al

[finlux]

Hi AlShack

If the motherboard or BIOS is designed for a maximum of 500GB, then the short answer is no. If the other 1TB drive you tried didn't work, the one in your link won't either!

[AlShack]

Cheers for that.  I just wanted confirmation that even though the 1TB drive in the WD unit was effectively a separate drive the machine would still not work properly?

I'll be using the 1TB bit as a data store only, with the OS on the 120GB SSD drive.

Thanks.