Can a Dell dimension E520 handle 1 terabyte

[RichGaffneyII]

My mother has a Dimension E520 and I bought her a new hard drive. Its an older PC with Vista on it and I would like to upgrade her to XP Professional or Windows 7 Home Premium. She had 260 GIG and it has a problem so I bought a new 1 Terabyte for it and I was wondering if its compatible or not. I will appreciate any heads up.
Thank you, Rich Gaffney II 608-622-842

 

[alexoiu]

It should work, if SATA ports available on the motherboard. Connect it, boot from the old HDD and in Disk management right click the new one, initialize and format it.

 

[TechsavvyAMD]

you can use either SATA1 or SATA2 hard drives and there's no limit on the size of the drives.SATA 2 1 TB hard disk is available and compatible with your system......

 

[saudor]

Technically, drives above 2 TB tend to complicate things when used as a boot drive - partition map wise in Windows