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    Upgrading HDD in 4501 WLMI?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by rmccurdy8, Mar 20, 2005.

  1. rmccurdy8

    rmccurdy8 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have never upgraded a HDD in a laptop, but would like to upgrade my 40gigHDD to at least 80-100 gigs. Is this a hard process? Do I need to buy a certain kind, or any Notebook HDD works?

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    rmccurdy8, Mar 20, 2005
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    bmhome1 Notebook Consultant

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    Any current hard drive that is 9.5mm maximum height will fit. If your Acer model has the handy hard drive access panel on bottom, its just two screws and lift out. I recommend Acronis True Image 8.0 to clone your current OS to the new drive and swap using a USB2 drive housing.
     
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    rmccurdy8 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I was planning on just putting Win XP Pro on instead of the recovery disc. Any disadvantage to doing this?

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    rmccurdy8, Mar 20, 2005
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    Venombite Notebook Virtuoso

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    Definitely recommended to install clean rather than using the recovery CD's. This way, you don't install all the garbage that the manufacuturer puts on the load. You can install only the drivers/software you want. The only minus I can possibly see is that you might loose some of the features that come when you restore from their CD's (some of the multimedia buttons for email or web). This is a minor issue which can be manually configured (I believe). Other than that, a manual load is the way to go.

    -Vb-
     
    Venombite, Mar 25, 2005
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