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    DM3 Hard Drive Upgrade

    Discussion in 'HP' started by ken4me, Jun 22, 2010.

  1. ken4me

    ken4me Newbie

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    Has anyone ever replace the hard drive for the HP DM3z laptop. I wanted to replace the 250GB hard drive with a 500GB hard drive. I first made a set of recovery disks, did a complete back up of the configuration, then I installed the new 500GB hard drive.
    After installing the 500GB hard drive, I attempted to restore Windows 7 OS to the new hard drive using the set of recovery disks. After I completed reinstalling the recovery disk, the program instructed me to remove the disk and restart the laptop. I tried doing that, but then it would tell me that it could not find a bootable disk. I thought that it after reinstalling the recovery disks, I should be able to boot the laptop from the new hard drive. Am I doing something wrong?

    I should mention that I was also using an external CD-ROM drive by way of a USB connection.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. :confused:
     
    ken4me, Jun 22, 2010
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  2. Kazryv

    Kazryv Newbie

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    You are having the issue because you are trying to use recovery disks that are made for a 250gb hdd with a 500gb hdd, you will have to do a fresh install with a larger drive.
     
    Kazryv, Jul 15, 2010
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