Installation of a HARD drive bigger to an old A120 - any size or XP activation problems?

Satellite Pro A120 WCC PSA - 007009EN, 1.46ghz GHz Celeron M 410. Present HDD - Fujitsu MHV 2060BH PL (according to Belarc Advisor)

This old machine still works perfectly, and I think the installation of a hard drive over to dual-boot Linux with the existing XP (Home edition).

(1) anyone know what size hard drive can be adapted to this model? I had a glance on the Toshiba site, but can't find anything for this other than the manual model rather vague.

(2) is it likely to be difficulties with the annoying "genuine advantage" em / the product activation process? Ideally, I would like to use Macrium reflect to the image of the current installation, and then write the image to the new hard drive. Although using the product recovery CD could give a new installation in nice, it would be convenient to avoid having to reinstall applications, get rid of the Norton AV 90 days etc. The only other product of MS on the machine is 'A Note,' that came with the computer and is very useful. (And "reactivated" which easily when I started to use the machine after the former owner had reinstalled from the product recovery disc.)

(3) anyone know where free online manuals for old Toshibas? According to my first question - I find the user manual lacking in useful detail and can find nothing useful for the Toshiba archives. (I'll also post a query on a 430 old - if I could find a source of information, this would save me to barely have advisers useful forum more often that it is absolutely necessary!)

My apologies if I'm slow to respond to all posts. I need to get out, but you come back tonight in case anyone has any suggestions.

Thank you in advance.

Hi tryagain.
-for your first problem (hard drive size), try a 160 GB drive, it should work (your current drive is a 60 GB?) but also 320 GB should work
in my possession, I found if a 60 GB HDD runs on a larger controller also works...
-for the second (installation of win), you can avoid activating windows again by cloning your system on new hard drive
There are tools available free clone that you can use
-for the last one (manual for old Toshibas) there is a point 'archive' choose in the download area where 'real old' operating manuals can be downloaded,
but I think you're looking for more information to dismantle your machine - I can't find anything like that also...
but good! No not guaranteed - no a cry... for your 430 ;-)

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