Advice on hard drive recovery, 301 error

Hi all

I have a PC HP Pavilion HPE h8 - 1170d which is about 2.5 years or older. The specifications are:

Intel Core i5 2500 with 8 GB of RAM, 1 TB SATA hard disk. I recently installed a graphics card Radeon HD6670 as the original card gave problems. I've also upgraded to a Cooler Master 500W power supply.

Other details of my PC are listed here: http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02991104

Recently, I have known failure linked with the hard disk, indicating error 301. I managed to collect enough (somehow) hard drive and now able to Microsoft to start up and run error checking tool. But I know I'll have to replace it because it's a matter of time before the disk dies hard completely.

Before I go and buy a replacement hard drive, I hope that I might know the following:

1. I don't know what version of SATA is my PC using. Can I just specify I want a SATA hard drive and not worry about their version of the SATA?

2. What is the best way to replace the hard drive from the software point of view? Can I make a copy of the image of my current hard drive, if yes, what is the best way to do it? Sorry, I didn't do this before if you need to ask this fundamental question. It would make sense to connect the new hard drive and then do the image?

Thank you very much for any help!

smtan

Hi smtan,

A SATA III, disc 6 GB data transfer rates will work.

Your PC model introduced by HP in 2011. He may have SATA II, but a disk SATA III will be backward compatible. If this is true, you will be limited to 3 GB transfer speeds.

Another consideration is the size of the HARD drive. You should probably limit the size of 2 TB HARD drive replacement. Your PC probably has a legacy BIOS and your HP Recovery disks may not work on a greater than 2 TB HARD drive.

You have a few choices on moving or installing Win 7 on your new HARD drive.

You can clone the existing installation from disc HARD original for HARD drive replacement. You will need to use either: free disk imaging software or buy this software. I heard good things about Macrium Reflect free and free EaseUS.

You can GOOGLE for other choices.

Install the disk imaging/software on the source of cloning HARD drive. Install the new disk on your PC.

Start the cloning software and follow the instructions on the operating system for the new HARD drive cloning.

See this article for instructions on cloning from one HARD disk to another.

This article may interest you. Consider buying a replacement SSD. The increase in performance is amazing. Many SSD manufacturers provide software cloning for the purchase. You can also buy the version of the office. This includes an adapter 3.5 inches for the installation of the SSD to 2.5 inches in the HARD drive cage.

There is a downside if you go SSD. Your HP recovery disks may not work because the replacement SSD will be less than 1 TB. There are ways around this. Please see this forum post on the installation of Win 7 without a disk. Let me know if you are interested.

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