Hi Timm for a good replacement hard drive any 9.5mm size hdd will d0 ,
your only limited by capacity you bios will recognize . Also you
may want to consider rotational speed of the harddrive (They usually
come in 4200 , 5600 and 7200 RPM speeds , the faster the  better)
A good resource for Dell replacement part information are these :

A good Dell laptop part cross reference site
http://www.bay-wolf.com/index.htm

A general online notebook forum
http://www.notebookforum.com

And Dell's community support forum
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums



                                           Herman Morgan



Timm Soldwish wrote:

>From:Timm Soldwish
>
>As requested, I am resubmitting my question with my
>whole name (my last name was not on the original
>request)
>
>I have a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop and i want to
>replace the hard
>drive.  What things do I need to
>consider.  Are there particular sizes or shapes items
>I need to look
>for in addition to speed and size.
>The existing one is not a high memory (20G?)
>
>
>
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