Possibly Upgrading Hard drive on DV6000t

Hello I am currently looking at purchasing a DV6000t in the next few weeks. I was kind of hoping to get a 7200 rpm Hard drive, which HP does not offer for this model. So that leaves one option, which is to upgrade to a 7200 rpm. I am probably just going to get the 80Gb drive. The questions I have now are: 1.) What brand/model is recommended?
2.) Has heat became an issue for anyone that has upgraded?
3.) I know i will have to reformat the new drive, how do I do this?
4.) Am I able to transfer the partition form the old drive to the new? (Also, is it possible to delete certain items from the partitions (bloatware in particular)).
5.) Lastly, is there a significant increase in performance in upgrading?

Thank you for your help!

 

1. Seagate/Hitachi
2. Not really. Might be a little bit warmer but they are working on that with newer drives, and you can always get a laptop cooler for cheap.
3. How to reformat using a XP cd, http://home.jam.rr.com/joshua627/how2reformat.htm
Otherwise if you have no xp cd you need to create your recovery discs off our 2nd partition or use your recovery cds
4. You can do drive copies (using software) (copies the partition, no need for reformat) but it will copy EVERYTHING so you need to take care of your adware/spyare/viruses/bloatware removal first.
5. If you are using a 5400 RPM hard drive now, most certainly.

 

honestly, i think its a must. 5400 rpm drives today are last years 4200's.i dont know why 5400'w are even offered anymore.

For my dv6000t, i actually ordered my 7200 Seagate while i was waiting for my dv6000t to arrive. when i got the notebook, i think i booted the stock drive for like 5 minutes, for the hell of it, then ripped it out. same with my dells.
i even have a 7200 rpm in my mac pb G4 17".

i'm ready for faster actually. 45 mbs is nice, but i always want more.

theres a slight diference in heat and battery drain. but a huge difference in speed.

get a segate. they're ultra quiet.

 

What model would you recommend? I see they have many different models names and im not sure what I should go with.

 

The Seagate Momentus or the Hitachi Travelstar 7k100 are the preferred models.

 

I have a question about the recovery disks. Are you able to use the DVDs generated by HP's recovery disk creator to format a new, blank HDD? I was under the impression that you would need an underlying windows install for them to work.

 

I cant speak from experience, because i personally think "recovery" discs are the devil, but am almost positive that you can install fresh from a recovery disc you made. I had a friend mention that he installed a new HD and used a reovery disc he made to set it up.

this is the Seagate i have in my DV6000t - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822146228
Its so quiet, you dont hear it at all sometimes. i paid 130 for it a couple months ago, and its $20 cheaper now.
I have its ata6 equivelant in my dell 710m and my powerbook. both super quiet.
Then i have a Hitachi in my I5100. not so quiet. louder than the 5400 it replaced by far.

 

Get the seagate