What hard drive does a Presario CQ57 notebook PC use?

Hi,
Have you tried to look it under Device Manager ?
Click Start > Control Panel > Device Manager > Disk drives
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BH
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Are you sure, the 17" Early Core Duo iMac's came with a 160GB Hard Drive.
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decided to post a question on this hp forum instead of the hundreds of other tech forums out there in the hopes of recieving a valid knowledgeble response. (Also since the question relates to Hp products lets give it a try on here>>)
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Hello,
Thank you for responding and opening up the discussion with more information.
I refered to it as new in my post in reference to obtaining it recently after my older dv2913cl.
The dv9233cl is in fact old, however I installed a brand new intel/nvidia motherboard into it.
The system boots, bios has native sata support set to 'enabled'. During post it recognises hdd device as it starts to click and spin and read. After it will say ' no OS found'. This to me seems normal as the hdd is not 'configured' to boot on the dv9233cl?
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As the computer is not a laptop you can use as many hard drives as you have SATA/PATA connectors on the motherboard (make it double on PATA connectors due to the ribbon cables). More drives however, also means a more powerful power supply unit. I suggest to keep one hard drive for an operating system (smaller up to 120GB) for a better performance (as suggested by my colleague) and possible data loss in case of a drive failure. The other bigger one or ones would be for user data (movies, music, whatever). I couldn't find much details about the motherboard or data connections. Is it SATA or IDE?
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