Ok i just bought a dell inspiron 1150 and i dont know what kind of hard drive it has in it if it ide or ata idk those may be the same thing i was looking at this hard drive to put in it http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...p;rd=1&rd=1 but im am not sire if it is compatiable could anyone tell me if its campatiable or not. and please dont say google it or go on dell.com becasue ive done both and none of them work.

If I remember correctly all hard drives that dell supports dhould be compatible with any system either desktop or laptop. Here is a quick tutorial on how to find out what your computer actual hard drive is

1. click start
2> Right click My Computer
3. Click properties
4. Click the hardware tab
5. Click on Device Manager
6. Click on Disk drives and that will give you the model number but for more info do this
7. right click on the hard drive and then select properties, their you can all the info about your hard drive


with that it should give you a good idea what type of hard drive you can get for your dell computer, also this will take a bit longer you can call Dell ech support and they could give you the model type of the hard drive as well.

This post has been edited by Saint_Michael: Apr 15 2007, 04:01 AM

well i dont have the computer with me right now so i cant check on it but does anyone know if theres a site i can go to, to get the specific things about the laptop

I know that newegg.com has a way of checking for compatibility when you try to buy memory (RAM and such). I would look there to see if they also have a hard drive compatibility check.

It should use a Samsung ATA hard drive. But only a ATA drive because I misread the title into thinking that you meant an Inspiron 1501