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    upgrade hard drive of Acer 5100

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by rivet, Aug 15, 2007.

  1. rivet

    rivet Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello,

    I recently bought a Acer aspire 5100-5830 laptop, which is similar to 5102, with a TL50 CPU, 2G ddr2 533 Ram, 120G Hitache 4200rpm 8M cache PATA hard drive and ATI X1100 IGP. I have a Hitache 80G 7200rpm IDE 2.5' HD at hand and I am thinking of changing the original HD to the 7200rpm one. Now I have a few questions before I do the change, it will be really appreciated if you can answer some of them.

    1. Is that easy to change the HD on this laptop?
    2. If I changed the HD, will it void the warranty?
    3. Can I "copy" the original C disk to my new HD, or do I need to do a fresh new windows installation? Will the recovery DVD still works on my new HD? If I am doing a fresh windows installation, can I use the same windows key, can I use NTFS format and is that easy to find all the drivers for the laptop?
    4. Do you think is it worth the hassle to upgrade the HD?

    Thanks very much in advance.
    rivet
     
    rivet, Aug 15, 2007
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  2. andyasselin

    andyasselin Notebook Deity

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    1 yes it just few screw to change drive
    2 No am sure they don,nt care unless you drive new fail and cause issie
    3 yes you can but you need sofware and way to hook up you old drive at same time as new one usb to laptop ide wound work but can be slow also program like ghost
    4 it upto you maybe little fast boot time and acess times
     
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