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    Upgrading my notebook hard drive

    Discussion in 'HP' started by mpayne2k, Jul 28, 2008.

  1. mpayne2k

    mpayne2k Newbie

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    I'm purchasing a larger hard drive for my PS3 and actually am considering doing a three-way swap in buying a 320gb hard drive to put in my dv2700t with a 160gb and then turning around and putting the 160gb in the PS3 and then moving the 60gb PS3 hard drive into an external case for backup purposes.

    I'm comfortable enough on reformatting my dv2700t as I have backed up all necessary data already on a flash drive. I am in the process of creating a "recovery disc" using HP's included recovery software. Is the process as simple as taking out the 160, plopping in the 320 and recovery discs in the drive and booting up to restore the system on the new drive?

    Also, the recovery disc, is it created using the recovery partition, or is it based on your current system state (vista updates and all, etc)?

    Thanks in advance for anyone's help on this!
     
    mpayne2k, Jul 28, 2008
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  2. deeastman

    deeastman Notebook Deity

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    Is the process as simple as taking out the 160, plopping in the 320 and recovery discs in the drive and booting up to restore the system on the new drive?

    Yes

    Also, the recovery disc, is it created using the recovery partition, or is it based on your current system state (vista updates and all, etc)?

    The Recovery Discs are created from the data on the Recovery Partition. Your current system state and all Vista updates will be gone. You will have to use Microsoft Update to re-install Vista SP1 and all updates.
    Make sure you backup all your personal data as it will be lost during the recovery process.

    I don't know what type of drive a PS3 takes but make sure it uses (and probably does) a drive with a SATA interface. That is what is in your notebook.
     
    deeastman, Jul 28, 2008
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  3. Envision

    Envision Notebook Deity

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    If you are going to be putting in a new HDD, why not just do a clean install? The performance increase is definitely worth it and you'll have to reinstall the OS anyways.

    The PS3 HDD is SATA.
     
    Envision, Jul 28, 2008
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  4. mpayne2k

    mpayne2k Newbie

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    I really do want to do a clean install...I'm going to research the sticky about doing them as I need to get my hands on the vista disc.

    Can I assume that once I have my recovery discs, the partition is no longer useful?

    As for the PS3, I've already confirmed the drives I have and need, 160gb will work great for the system!
     
    mpayne2k, Jul 28, 2008
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