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    HDD Problem

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Arwhyayen, Mar 22, 2014.

  1. Arwhyayen

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    Hi,

    I am new here so I bear with me all + don't know a thing about laptops, so here goes.

    A while back I threw my HP pav DV6, causing it to make an odd noise (HDD?) and not boot up fully ever since. It gets to the loading bar but no further.

    now, a) how do I go about finding out which model hard drive to purchase? And b) how do I fix the newly purchased hard drive in? As this laptop is desperately needed for college work.

    Here are some pics of inside this beast to give everybody a rundown of what my laptop is:


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    Thanks, and please help.
     
    Arwhyayen, Mar 22, 2014
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  2. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

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    Well, your HDD is SATA, so any SATA HDD (almost every drive available on the market right now) will do. Pick one with the RPM and capacity you want or invest in a SSD.

    As for how to put the HDD in, you likely noticed that the drive in in a caddy and held there by four screws. Remove the four screws, remove the old drive, put the new drive in, screw it it inplace, replace the caddy with the drive in the laptop, screw the caddy inside the laptop and profit!
     
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    Peon Notebook Virtuoso

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    To add to tijo's post, what you want specifically is a 2.5" HDD. The other type on the market, the 3.5" HDD, is a much larger sized drive which will only fit in desktops.
     
    Peon, Mar 22, 2014
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  4. Qing Dao

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    Have you tried performing a repair installation of windows? My first impression of this malfunction is not hard drive failure.
     
    Qing Dao, Mar 22, 2014
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  5. Arwhyayen

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    The 2.5" hd just seems to disconnect out of some kind of wire? No screws seem to need unscrewed if you will.


    Thankyou, as this was confusing me slightly. BUT one question regarding this... As I out into every search engine '2.5" hard drive' a lot of the pictures and results I get look like your standard desktop computer HDD.. like with arm-spindle thing, which obviously would be too big.. I don't understand.

    How do I do this? I think my girlfriends brother tried this via disc as he had also mentioned some installation disc. But it never got to the point where the CD was allowed to fully boot.
     
    Arwhyayen, Mar 23, 2014
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    Qing Dao, Mar 23, 2014
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    tijo, Mar 23, 2014
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