Refitting a nc4000 hard drive into a nc4010

Hi,

A few weeks ago my trusty nc4000 stopped working after i tried fitting an upgrade of RAM. HP said it was a system board thingy, but instead of getting it repaired (cost about £110), i decided to get a 2nd hand nc4010.

My question is, can i just take my hard drive from my old nc4000 and fit it into the nc4010, or might it damage the nc4010?


Cheers,




James

 

Bumppp

 

The drive itself should work fine. I think the mounts for the drives are the same for both models also (judging by the fact that the notebooks themselves look identical), so you should be perfectly safe.

Hard drives are interchangeable, given that they use the same interface. I would think that the nc4000 and the nc4010 use the same interface (PATA), given that they were made before the SATA interface became popular (PATA and SATA are 2 different, incompatible types of Hard Drive interfaces. They have completely different connectors, so you don't need to worry about accidentally connecting a PATA hard drive to a SATA interface, and vice-versa)

The only thing you may need to worry about is Windows. It may tell you that you need to re-activate it, and/or it may have issues "getting used to" the new hardware configuration. The worst case scenario is that you may need to reactivate/reinstall Windows.