The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Dell Vostro 1500 80GB HD-Upgrading to Larger HD Question

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by bmwm3oz, Apr 2, 2008.

  1. bmwm3oz

    bmwm3oz Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    13
    Messages:
    291
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I am looking to buy a 7200RPM Hard Drive to replace the 80GB 5400RPM Drive in this laptop I just got.

    My question is- If I sit here and do all the Windows Updates and my games and everything is it pretty much pointless because I will have to do them over again on the 7200RPM HD or do computers have some kind of storage where it can save like 10 GB of windows updates and what not?

    Basically-Should I wait to install Windows Service Pack 1 with the new hard drive or does it even matter

    Thank you~!
     
    bmwm3oz, Apr 2, 2008
    #1
  2. goofball

    goofball Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    358
    Messages:
    1,710
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    If you want, you can do a complete drive copy from your old drive to the new drive. I normally use Symantec/Norton GHOST but it is not the only program that will do this for you. If you go this route, you don't need to worry, install SP1 and it will be part of the copying-over.
     
    goofball, Apr 2, 2008
    #2
  3. bmwm3oz

    bmwm3oz Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    13
    Messages:
    291
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    What if I want to install games and other programs such as Itunes?
     
    bmwm3oz, Apr 2, 2008
    #3
  4. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    7,197
    Messages:
    28,841
    Likes Received:
    2,166
    Trophy Points:
    581
    Yes, get your present HDD fully configured so you can keep it as a fully working backup. Then get a new HDD plus a USB 2.5" SATA enclosure and clone the existing HDD on to the new one. Ghost has already been mentioned although I use Acronis TrueImage. The trial version is fully functional for a month, which should be long enough.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Apr 2, 2008
    #4
  5. bmwm3oz

    bmwm3oz Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    13
    Messages:
    291
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Thank you everyone
     
    bmwm3oz, Apr 2, 2008
    #5