WHATS THE HARD DRIVE LIMIT OF A COMPAQ PRESARIO SR1315CL

Hi there. There is no limit to the size of the hard drive that you want to install. It just depends on your budget, and whether you want an internal drive or an external drive. I have a desktop which uses an internal 160GB as my main drive, and a 750GB external USB drive. The make of your pc doesn't make any difference.

The good thing about having an external drive, is that I can connect it to any desktop/laptop and still access the files.

Hope that helps.

Tim

The motherboard of your computer has two IDE and two SATA connections.
There is no upper limit of the drive size (at least nothing you have to worry about if you have WInXP, Vista or Linux installed)

Attention!!! - I heard from many people that HP (Compaq) has disabled the SATA connectors on your motherboard (ASUS A7V8X-LA)!!!
If you want to be on the safe side (and I would definitely recommend that) go and get an IDE drive. There are many good drives around with 500GB of storage.

If you have any more questions, just come back here and leave a comment - I'm happy to help.

There is no practical limit to the capacity of the hard drive on your system. Very old systems had trouble recognizing large capacity drives but your system does not have that problem. As long as you put a standard physical size 3.5" drive in there it will work. Even if some extreme misfortune happened and your computer would not recognize it right away the manufacturer includes software to overcome that problem.

to check your size now-- click "my computer" then alternate click on the drive, then properties you will see the amount of available space and other stuff