Preparing my laptop

[mrstaz2014]

I have a del latitude 620 laptop it was a Dell XP professional install when I bought it the guy. It put on windows 7 just a quick install the hard drive was outdated the memory card or RAM stick was only 0.5 Mb memory I am trying to see if when I put a new RAM which I have got a ram of 500 gb that I am buying for my computer and I've just bought a two GB RAM memory card and I was wondering if somebody can tell me which would be the best I want to install home Premium windows 7 onto my laptop it is a older model 2000 model I'll post a picture with it I want I want to know if a 64 bit or a 32 bit which one would be better for my laptop

 

[whs]

With only 2GB of RAM, 32bit is the better solution. Did you check whether your new RAM Dimm is compatible with the mobo. You can have it checked here:

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[mrstaz2014]

I think it worked just fine as before the hard drive decided to crash hard drive was an 80 gb hard drive I bought it with a low grade memory card already and the ground as it was outdated. I already put a driver updater I told you try to repair it and I see the updates on it but then hard drive to crash hard drive was the original from when it was actually XP Professional

 

[mrstaz2014]

I apologize for how it is everything said the hard drive was outdated the driver was kept saying there was so much out date on everything that was in that guess whatever the drive was I told you I don't have a very good when it comes to computers but I do that's why I'm asking to make sure I don't put something in my computer that's going to make it crash

 

[LaurieD227]

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or there might be some threads of interest in a couple of the other sections of this forum: there are sections devoted to Hardware and Devices, to Drivers, and to General Discussion (links below)

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[whs]

Are you planning to replace that disk. Is it a Sata disk ?

 

[mrstaz2014]

which disk are you talking about are you talking about the hard drive as if that's what you're talking about then yeah but no its not a SATA. Hitachi

 

[mrstaz2014]

the hard drive that I had in this is it has SATA a capability

 

[whs]

which disk are you talking about are you talking about the hard drive as if that's what you're talking about then yeah but no its not a SATA. Hitachi

There is probably only that one disk. And Hitachi can be anything - Sata or IDE.

 

[mrstaz2014]

so what does that mean can you explain it to me

 

[whs]

It means that if you buy a new disk, you have to know whether to get a Sata disk or an IDE disk. They are different.

 

[mrstaz2014]

well the hard drive that I got for it for the laptop that I got is ATA/IDE

 

[whs]

Does it work ?

 

[mrstaz2014]

no its the one that crashed on me it's only 80 gigabyte and it's older than the computer itself hard drive I think was the original when it was XP Professional I even bought a new driver updater disk drive everything and that's when it crashed so I guess that's what I figure out that it needed a new hard drive but when I get a new hard drive I have to read do the windows and I was wondering if that's why I want to know which Windows 7 I should use the 32bit or the 64 bit windows 7 home premium but on my laptop

 

[whs]

Only with more than 4GB of RAM would you use a 64bit Windows. An 80GB disk is a bit small for Windows and the user files. I would get at least 320GB.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Look at the other thread you started:

http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/364559-need-help-my-laptop.html

 

[mrstaz2014]

well the hard drive I'm buying is the 500 GB in the room that I have in there it only holds 1 2GB Ram stick so which one you think would be best

 

[whs]

Run this program and post a picture of the result.

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