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    Help please! Trouble with 7200rpm drive for HP DV2000

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Nineteen, Nov 8, 2006.

  1. Nineteen

    Nineteen Newbie

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    I bought a HP DV 2000 with best specs possible: 2GHz Duo 2 Core, 2G RAM, etc... I got only the 80G hard drive with the intent of upgrading it with a Seagate Momentus 100G 7200rpm SATA drive.

    I put in the Seagate drive and then used my recovery DVDs to reboot and recreate the original image. It took almost 3 hours (yes) for the process to complete and then an additional 1 hour for XP and HP processes to install additional software. When XP finally became available, I go to "My Computer" and it created 2 partitions X and C. "C" had the system software for recovery and "X" showed only 1G of total space and 993MB occupied!

    So, then I decided to recreate my own recovery disks from the original hard drive and that process is running for almost an hour and I still have only 1 of 3 DVDs written. Should a laptop with such good specs take so long? Have I just got a faulty machine?

    Can you please tell me what is happening here? Shouldn't the hard drive upgrade be simple?

    Thanks in advance. Hopefully you guys can help me...
     
    Nineteen, Nov 8, 2006
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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Perhaps the X partition is the QuickPlay partition.
     
    ZaZ, Nov 8, 2006
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  3. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yeah, most HP systems ship with 3 partitions, C: for Windows, D: for the restore partition and a 1GB(X: ) quickplay partition. The X: is usually hidden whereas the restore partition is visible but it cannot be changed/altered. As for as the recovery discs they do take a long long time.
     
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  4. bgeiger

    bgeiger Notebook Enthusiast

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    Try cloning the old drive to the new drive. You can clone any partition you want, and it only takes an hour. See my post in Hardware Section pros & Cons of 7200 RPM drive. It is the last post as of this time.
     
    bgeiger, Nov 8, 2006
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