Installing a new hard drive for a HP Laptop

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• station31 Posts: 3,276

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  05/08/12 - 16:06 #2

  KidPoker wrote: »

  I've never done this before but from the youtube videos I have watched it looks quite easy and I shouldn't have a problem.
  
  I have been reading conflicting reports over HP laptops and new harddrives, so perhaps somebody who has done this before can help me?
  
  I've been told that I would need to purchase a harddrive from the HP store.
  
  I've been told by someone else that is nonsense and I can pick up a harddrive from anywhere as long as it is the same size or bigger in capacity. Which is true?
  
  I assumed as long as you had the HP recovery disks for your machine then you could purchase a harddrive pretty much anywhere and install it on that?
  
  Thanks guys and girls.

  
  You dont need a drive from the HP store, you can get one anywhere, all you need to know is it IDE or Sata.
  
  The swap over is usally straight forward. It's under a cover unscrew that , the drive caddy unscrews pull that out swap new over on to the caddy and put back together, can take as little as 5 minutes

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• KidPoker Posts: 4,294

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  05/08/12 - 16:12 #3

  Cheers mate. Thanks very much.

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• RobinOfLoxley Posts: 27,040

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  05/08/12 - 16:48 #4

  HDDs over 640GB are, or were, a few mm thicker, so the brackets or cover won't screw back on for some laptops.
  
  So don't go buying a very large capacity without checking.
  
  http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/25inch-500-640-750gb-hdd-roundup.html
  
  Scroll down for thickness comments.
  (2 yrs old)

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• KidPoker Posts: 4,294

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  05/08/12 - 18:14 #5

  Cheers Robin, I was actually planning on getting the same capacity as I have now anyway.

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