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Replace Dell Inspiron harddrive with HP

Discussion in 'Dell' started by lhottiedujour, Aug 30, 2009.

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My dell hard drive crashed and the costumer service totally sucks.. I have a HP computer and I was wondering if it is possible to replace the Dell hard drive with the HP and save myself some money?
Also, if a hard drive crashes, can I just do system restore or system recovery or something and clean it out, start over? thanks.

lhottiedujour, Aug 30, 2009

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raduque Notebook Evangelist

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What Dell model and what HP model?

If the Dell and the HP both use the same kind of hard drive (IDE or SATA) then yes.

raduque, Aug 30, 2009

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Fragilexx Get'cha head in the game

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You just need to make sure the HDD you replace it with is SATA and the drive is a 9.5mm drive so that it physically fits into the machine.

I'd try Dell tech support again if I were you though, sometimes you get a muppet and sometimes you don't. Rare that you get what you want on your first call - though it does happen.

You should have had the OS disk with the Inspiron, so you can clean re-install; or when booting press F12 and eventually one of the options is to restore from the recovery partition - unless you wiped it out with a previous clean install.

Fragilexx, Aug 30, 2009

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