UPGRADE:>5400 TO 7200rpm LAPTOP HDD

Hey,

1st post.

I have a Gateway. I want to upgrade the hdd to a 7200rpm spin. What's the chances of this succeeding?

 

Hey,

904th post.

100% as long as you don't mess with the types (SATA vs. PATA) and heights (9.5mm vs. 12.5 mm).


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Yea that's the rub. When I go into the boot screen it looks as if the hard drive is Eide. But when I run Aida64 it's telling that I have a sata. (?)

 

The most guaranteed way is to take out the HDD from your laptop and look at the connectors. SATA and IDE connectors are completely different.


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Yea that makes sense.

 

WD5000BEVT is a 500GB, 5400 RPM, 8MB Cache, 2.5" SATA HDD. If you look at the device type line, it says SATA-II.

You should look for SATA HDDs.


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I have one coming from Amazon.
I just freaked out today when I was trying to boot Ubuntu from a flash drive.

I was changing boot order and I'm looking at IDE in the one position and about choked on my tongue. This computer is less than two months old and well you know.
At this moment I'm trying to cram how to clone said slow hdd to a little faster one. Probably should have went for the hybrid - seems to give best speed/$.

 

If you have a AHCI option in BIOS for the disk controller, use it and you will get better performance. But be aware that you maybe have to reinstall your OS.

 

That IDE you see in BIOS is the SATA operation. AHCI is preferred for modern OS but don't change it after you installed your OS or your computer won't boot.

Also why do you want to change your drive? The Scorpio Blue 500 GB is a good drive, if you are expecting miracles going to 7200 rpm you are going to be sourly disappointed..

 

If it's a current/last year 2 month old computer, you have SATA, not IDE.

To switch to ACHI mode on a running system:

1) Download the proper 'F6' driver from Intel (I'm assuming an Intel chipset here...) and expand them on your hard drive.

2) In device manager, in the IDE/ATAPI controllers section (not the disk drives section), right click on the SATA controller, select update drivers, select browse my computer, select let me pick from a list, select have disk, choose browse and point to the directory you expanded the drivers above.

3) When warned that this driver is not meant for your hardware, choose ignore/continue.

4) Reboot the system - but before it boots up go into the BIOS and change the setting to AHCI instead of IDE or compatible - and your system should boot right up (but using the better drivers now).

Link to 64bit Intel 10.1.1008 (latest) RST 'F6' drivers:

See:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Det...apid+Storage+Technology+(Intel®+RST)&lang=eng

Good luck.

 

ramgen:
maximinimaus:
Tsunade Hime:
tilleroftheearth:

I misread it, I am in AHCI. I had to toggle through the menu to see that which I did after I had posted.

Replacing the hard drive was not the only thing that I was trying to achieve.

I've had 3 hard drives fail on me and I'm looking into the face of 4 years college for one of them and I wanted to prepare myself by learning how to clone an hard drive so that when the inevitable happens I can just reach up on the shelf and have already prepared a drive with the OS cloned to.

I realize that I'm not going to get a whole lot of difference out of a 7200rpm but according to the article front and center on this website it would increase or I would hope decrease frustration level at the multi-tasking chores that she would expect from a modern day unit - listening to music, several tabs open, and a word processing program etc.

So I kind of mislead you; the real purpose for changing out the hard drive was If I could successfully clone it - might as well clone it to a little faster drive.

 

edit: mispost