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    dv6t-6000 Hard Drive/SSD

    Discussion in 'HP' started by AndreaNya, Feb 7, 2013.

  1. AndreaNya

    AndreaNya Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well, after having issues with this laptop for a while now i finally figured the hard drive was failing and needs replacement.
    I was just wondering, has anyone donde this? would getting a SSD be better? Is this possible? Has anyone tried it?
     
    AndreaNya, Feb 7, 2013
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    aindriu80 Notebook Consultant

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    It is possible, I guess it depends on whether you want to spend the cash. Its pretty straightforward to do it yourself.

    I have been looking at this 512GB Internal SSD drive
     
    aindriu80, Feb 8, 2013
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    coastal_carolina Notebook Evangelist

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    dv6 can not handle dual hard drives like the dv7. If you are willing to take out the optical drive I believe several peeps have installed a secondary hard drive there.

    see my signature...
     
    coastal_carolina, Feb 8, 2013
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    I think he is talking about replacing the original hard disk. There is only 4 screws holding it in. Is there any way you can copy whats on your hard disk to the SSD ? I'm not sure if doing a straight swap with a new empty SSD would allow the DV6 to start up ?
     
    aindriu80, Feb 9, 2013
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  5. coastal_carolina

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    I would recommend backing up the critical data needed and doing a fresh HP recovery or OS install on the new SSD.

    If you must bring all of the data over, you can get an imaging program like Acronis for like $25 and take an image of the original hard drive to put it on the SSD after you install it.
     
    coastal_carolina, Feb 9, 2013
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    How can you check which SATA your DV6 uses ?
     
    aindriu80, Feb 10, 2013
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    I agree....
     
    Kalia57, Jul 25, 2013
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