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    acer aspire 7720 and hard drive capacity

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by wintron, Aug 6, 2010.

  1. wintron

    wintron Notebook Enthusiast

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    hello , i own an acer aspire 7720 . recently i have been getting laptop freezing both in safe mode and in vista normal mode . i checked the ram with memtest and it checked out ok . i then checked the hard drive , western digital 160gb sata that originally came with the laptop , and it threw a couple of errors . i checked with wd error codes and it tells me that the drive is defective and to replace it . i am looking into replacing it with a 250gb one .

    question is , can i install a bigger one than 250gb , like for example a 320gb or 500gb one ?

    thanks .
     
    wintron, Aug 6, 2010
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    hexxor93 Notebook Consultant

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    Yes you can as long as its a Sata drive.
     
    hexxor93, Aug 7, 2010
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    wintron Notebook Enthusiast

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    ok thanks . just one final question if you or anyone can answer .

    this laptop came with a sata1 drive . is it possible to install a sata2 drive or will i have to jumper it ?

    thanks
     
    wintron, Aug 7, 2010
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    You should be able to, mine came with a bracket thing with two SATA ports on it so the new drive would go into Sata 2. The system will boot with Sata 1 and 2 will be the extra drive.
     
    hexxor93, Aug 7, 2010
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    wintron Notebook Enthusiast

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    i think i have confused you a bit . i meant to say that this laptop came with a sata150 drive and what i meant to say is can i install a sata300 drive or will i have to jumper the sata 300 drive to operate at 150 speeds ?

    thanks
     
    wintron, Aug 7, 2010
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    Yes most likely, all you can do is try. Mine are running at full speed without the jumper.
     
    hexxor93, Aug 8, 2010
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    wintron Notebook Enthusiast

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    ok thanks . just one last one if i may . i know that these jumpers are smaller than normal motherboards jumpers . do these jumpers come with the hd itself or do i have to purchase them separatly ?

    thanks .

    p.s. i will be buying a hd within the next couple of days .
     
    wintron, Aug 8, 2010
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    Hmm not sure if all of them come with one. Wait and see :)
     
    hexxor93, Aug 9, 2010
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    wintron Notebook Enthusiast

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    installed new 500gig hd also installed win 7 and all is well .

    thanks all
     
    wintron, Aug 26, 2010
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