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    Upgrading HD on LAPTOP

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by shotmillions, May 26, 2008.

  1. shotmillions

    shotmillions Notebook Geek

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    Just wondering isit very hard to upgrade a harddrive on a laptop? Upgrading the primary drive not adding another one. I dont mean the actual removing and putting the other one in i mean putting the OS on it and all that stuff...


    Thanks
     
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  2. jisaac

    jisaac Notebook Deity

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    installing the os is super easy er... the only thing you need to do is put your windows cd into your computer and boot up lol. There shouldn't be a problem. Just make sure that the hd your upgrading to confers with you lappy's hd specs, e.g. is it sata or ide...??
     
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  3. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    Have a read of this thread. Cloning us usually easier than reinstalling everything.

    John
     
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  4. Dark Heart

    Dark Heart Notebook Consultant

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    Meh, I had recently had a hard disk failure, and my old Seagate 80 gig died on me, so I had to get the Recovery disks with Vista on (HP said XP would not work completely with my lappy) from HP because I never extracted my recovery partition from the hard disk onto DVDs.

    My setup took about 3+1/2 hours (this includes OS reinstall, HP software reinstall, and recovery partition creation.)
    I have forgotten how long it really takes just to reinstall the OS- Vista took about 20-30 minutes, just the OS alone.
     
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