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• Replacing laptop hard drive

  I have a HP Pavilion dv4-2049us laptop, I need to replace the hard drive. The hard drive is a 250 MB drive.  However, I found a replacement on EBay. The drive hard ebay is a 320 MB hard drive. Can I use this 320 MB hard drive in my laptop that originally had a 250 MB hard drive? It (the 320 MB hard drive) will affect the performance of my computer? As do faster or slower? Or is that what you call "modernization"?

  Hello

  Welcome to the Microsoft Community and thanks for posting the question. I see you want to learn more about the laptop hard drive replacement. Let me help you with the issue.

  I suggest that post you this question in the HP support forums here: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/psg/

  I hope this helps. If you need further assistance on this particular issue or any other related issue Windows let us know and we will be happy to help you.

  Thank you.

• Laptop Hard Drive 3.5 SATA hard disk (please fast response)

  I have a major problem. There is a HP Compaq DC7600 SFF on Ebay that ive been watching for a while. I have DDR2 RAM for her and a 60 GB laptop hard drive. Im going to be to put Windows Xp on the computer. The problem is to a SATA 3.5 hard drive. Is there an adapter for it? I'll need to get a new drive?

  Here is the link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-DC7600-SFF-Pentium-4-HT-2-8Ghz-512Mb-No-HD-/271103764174?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D11%26meid%3D3652700529279890050%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D1%26sd%3D280958745061%26
  Help, please

  Hi Ryan,

  Thanks for posting in the Microsoft Community.

  I suggest using your favorite search engine and look for adapter that will allow you to do. You can also contact the manufacturer and check the availability of these adapters.

  Hope this information is helpful and let us know if you need help with Windows. We will be happy to help you.

• I switch my laptop hard drive from FAT32 to NTFS via a command prompt and now cannot read the disc.

  convert my portable hard drive from FAT32 to NTFS by using the command line.
  After conversion, my pc can not read my laptop hard drive, I check the computer, my protable hd management 1175 GB, my drive only of 500 GB hard probatle, be how to 1175bg? can someone help me? now I can't play my disc hard protable.

  http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4338/002ilq.jpg

  Check this box:

  http://www.tech-FAQ.com/how-to-convert-FAT32-to-NTFS.html

• Unable to transfer data from the laptop hard drive external/pendrive.

  Dear Experts,

  Unable to transfer data from the laptop hard drive external/pendrive.

  Each time that tried to transfer meesage seems to the authorization of the administration.

  Kindly help me to solve the problem.

  Concerning

  Hello

  Follow these steps and check:

  To take ownership of a folder

  a. click on the USB key you want to learnand then click on Properties.

  b. click on the Security tab, click Advanced and then click on the tab owner.

  c. click on change. If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

  d. click on the name of the person you want to give to the property.

  e. If you want that person to be the owner of the files and subfolders in this folder, select the owner of subcontainers and objects replace check.

  f. click on OK.

• Laptop hard drive failures

  My laptop hard drive crashed. It is repaired by a new disc with the approved o/s. It doesn't have a D partition now. Is there any use in my command, recovery disks? I already started to restore applications and data.

  Hello

  I see what you mean

  If media recovery is all benefits for you, depends in large part of the operating system that you use and whether you have any other way to reinstall the operating system in case of accident - for example if you are using Windows 7, you can easily create your own installation media and use the key of 25 characters of your coa label to activate it. A complete list of Windows 7 ISO files here.

  If you are under Windows 8, these files are not so easy to find, so you spend your recovery media order may be worth considering.

  In both cases, the only way that partition D (recovery) can be recreated would be to use a set of recovery media (disk or flash drive) to perform a factory reset as it will not only reinstall the OS, but to recreate the original scores, with only your laptop delivered.

  DP - K

• Product key Windows 8 Pro does not not after change of laptop hard drive

  Hello! I have a Dell Inspiron computer 15R laptop with Windows 7 Home Basic Edition pre-installed. I bought Windows 8 Pro Windows upgrade plan offer. The product key I got worked before my laptop hard drive crashed and changed by Dell. How can I solve this problem?

  1. press the Windows key + X , and then clickrun, and then type: slui.exe 4

  
  

  2. then press the ENTER"" key.

  3. Select your "country" in the list.

  4. choose the option "activate phone".

  5. stay on the phone (do not select/press all options) and wait for a person to help you with the activation.

  6. explain your problem clearly to the support person.

• Paragon/Ghost: Create a bootable clone between the (hard drives of different sizes to)

  I was web-searching options of backup in the last days and want to settle on a solution of freeware Paragon or Ghost (I know that the latter meets the needs, but I wonder if the first can do with relative ease for a beginner). Here's the scenario:

  My current Toshiba Satellite A660 (PSAW3C-047017 model) running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. The HARD disk is the disk HARD MK6465GSX from Toshiba (http://storage.toshiba.eu/cms/en/hdd/multimedia/product_detail.jsp?productid=341). I bought a small (500GB) Seagate Momentus XT, which has apparently Advanced Format. I guess the Toshiba HDD 512 bytes/sector, because nothing comes up in a search on the web for Advanced Format for this HARD drive.

  I would like the Momentus XT allows you to create a bootable to my Toshiba HDD clone. The Momentus XT will be in a pregnant that will interface to the portable computer via eSATA. After cloning for the Momentus XT, I would replace my Toshiba HDD in the laptop with the Momentus XT due to its superior performance. The Toshiba HDD becomes my HDD auxiliary (in the external case) for the cloning of the weekly. If nothing ever happens to the Momentus XT in the laptop, I can then take the Toshiba HDD out of the enclosure and put it in the laptop. However, this mode of use of the means I have to be able to clone initially Toshiba HDD Momentus XL, then clone in the other direction later.

  I read a lot about needing to be trendy, but not having alignment issues do not image, cloned, or formatted a hard drive before (except obey blindly support), I'm foggy on the understanding. Seagate announced their SmartAlign technology, but there is no corroboration on its effectiveness and no info about HARD drive models have it. Because Windows 7 is described as supporting the AF, I guess that many of the issues identified by SmartAlign are nonissues to me.

  My concern is that if there are other traps due to the corresponding HDD sizes and sectors that could create problems for the cloning process, both the Toshiba HDD for the Momentus XT and vice versa. Consequences (and solutions) I'm trawling for are the inability to create a clone bootable, the completeness and accessibility of the clone and align content makes this performance impact (with the exception of those to avoid due to the use of Windows 7).

  A friend I know that Ghost will properly manage the HARD disk and differences in size of the sector gracefully, avoiding the above consequences. I was wondering if freeware Paragon will handle this scenario as well. Paragon is free, but apart from the functional qualities, I would also consider ease of use in order to take a decision on the two.

  Thanks for any comment on the ability of Paragon freeware to manage this scenario, the comparison of usability of Paragon & Ghost for this scenario, and anything else you think is relevant in the choice between them for my scenario.

  Hello

  > Thanks for any comment on the ability of Paragon freeware to manage this scenario, the comparison of usability of Paragon & Ghost for this scenario, and anything else you think is relevant in the choice between them for my scenario.
  In my opinion, this question should be forwarded to the Paragon supports.
  http://www.Paragon-Software.com/support/
  Check the knowledge base or the forum of the community.

  From my point of view, you must first create a Toshiba Recovery disk.
  In this case, you are always secure you can set the laptop back to factory settings, even if the HARD drive was going to die or the system would begin to run crazy.

  I have used Ghost in the past in order to back up my files. I created an image of my two partitions bootable file and this race smoothly unfortunately cannot say on Paragon or compare both applications.

• 15-g092sa HP: HP laptop hard drive produces of constant "cracking" noise.

  Hello

  I am writing here because I tried to get rid of the problem myself, but I don't seem to be able to. I bought my laptop (HP 15-g092sa, Windows 8.1, AMD A8) about 3 days ago and from the moment where I first turned on it made these sounds 'Crackle '. They are not strong... They are the kind of sounds that a computer makes when loading something, such as a program or a movie or something. The thing is, my laptop makes these sounds all the time.

  I checked the CPU usage, but also the use of the car and the two are constantly at 30-40% (player will sometimes up to 90%). It worries me because I don't know if that kind of sound is normal for this particular model, or if something is damaged inside. As I said, it's only 3 days... I don't really know what to do. I don't want to get a new laptop if that can be avoided because I like it, I don't want to die on me. Overall, the sound is constant, but it does not come from the speakers, I'm sure of that. The hard drive light is almost constantly on and he's in sync with the sound, so I'm sure it's the fault of the hard drive.

  So what I do with it? Is it possible to just get the HDD exchaged or should it make any difference and I should get a new machine altogether?

  Thank you!

  Annette

  @annette2 ,

  Hello and thanks for the display on the HP support forums.  First thing I say if you have any questions on a laptop that is only 3 days old to return to the place that you bought and traded.

  If there is a problem with the hardware after so many days, you will have to send it in for repair.  At this point, you can have a fact Exchange depending on where you bought it.

  You shouldn't have a crackling sound from the hard drive, this is not normal.

  If you can't get an Exchange or a replacement the next step would be removing the hard drive and try to run it see if the noise is still there.  If it does not have the crackling sound, then you will need to contact the HP support by phone for repair options.

  Please contact our technical support at the 800-474-6836. If you do not live in the United States / Canada region, please click the link below to get help from your region number.

  http://WWW8.HP.com/us/en/contact-HP/WW-phone-assist.html

  Please post back and let me know how you go with it.

  Thanks again for posting and have a great day.

• Pavilion G-6 2209au: Pavilion G - 6 2209au exchange for SSD HARD drive

  Hello I have this have upgraded with 6 GB ram and now want to replace the disc for one SSD HARD drive, I read in the forms some how you need to change the bios when you do so, what measures are necessary for the ssd to function? I don't like about backing up files, I'll use as an external HARD drive. Also I have the apu a4 4300 m and would like to get 10 4600 m cpu is this hard to replace or should I pay someone? Thanks for the support

  That's what you have:

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c03551667

  It is the repair:

  Manual

  From the outset I see that you only have 2 GB of RAM. Very easy and inexpensive to spend at least 4 GB. See page 46.

  The motherboard is the motherboard. There is no upgrade available. However, you have the CPU AMD A4 and you might fall into a 10 - 4600M. See page 83. It would be a major update and only would no treatment faster, but would provide a slightly better video chip since it is a "APU" with processor and video on the same chip.

  Finally, you can exchange the mechanical drive to a SSD drive. The upgrade of the speed would be very noticeable.

  That @banhien meant, however, the cost of this can equal or exceed a new laptop. and almost certainly will if you need to pay a technician to do it. The first update I is the RAM, then the SSD and then the last would be the CPU. If you need any help post more come back.

  If it's 'the Answer' please click on 'Accept as Solution' to help others find it.

• Compaq Presario 2586US laptop - hard drive upgrade

  Recently, I took a chance and bought 2 'parts only' Compaq Presario 2500 laptop computer series off Ebay and was able to make a unique work PC with motherboard of the 2586US being the motherboard, I used.  I don't have a hard drive, so I bought a Samsung 160 GB ATA drive.  Turns out I have to not need the adapter on the end of bus because it plugged right in the motherboard making.  The reader is supposed to be ATA100 and ATA133 at the upper end (I don't remember which).  I put the drive and installed Windows.  I noticed that it seemed slow but Windows showed the disc to the original format.  Then I went to dual-boot with a Linux distribution and encountered errors.  Thanks to a lot of research on the web I found the BIOS and the IDE interface itself (?) apparently does not have a drive larger than 137 GB.  I checked the BIOS and indeed it says the maximum usable size 137 GB.  It also shows the transfer rate to DMA2, which, as I understand it, means that it is only the transfer to 33 MB instead of 100 or 133 MB.  The service manual says ATA100, so it should support a transfer DMA5 rate.

  I don't pretend to understand all of this at all.  So, I'm looking for help.

  (1) is anyway to go beyond 137 GB on a hard drive in this laptop?

  (2) otherwise, it's the fact that my drive is actually 160 GB when the PC support 137Go cause more problems?

  (3) what should I do to obtain a rate of transfer beyond DMA2?  The configuration of the BIOS doesn't let me tab this field to change.

  Thanks for any help and explanations that I can understand.  Don't forget that I am just your average Joe and not some kind of expert at all.  I found a lot of this on the web but don't know what it means.

  Thanks in advance!

  Dave

  After a lot of research and reading on the net, I found the following link:

  http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~leeey/A7A266/

  Basically, the driver ALi M5229 was the problem.  It was not really support the DMA modes.  The link explains this and provides a link for the driver of the UDMA for the chip (it is not only the miniport driver that you get from the Compaq/HP site).  I installed it, had to reboot about 3 or 4 times due to messages "new hardware has been installed, but a reboot is required.  When I finally got around those I noticed that in Device Manager I see the ALi controller and it is listed as a UDMA controller now.  The individual channels are not displayed (the pilot seems to configure the drives as SCSI peripheral nickname).  Using the included ALi utility, it shows my driver running at ATA100/133.  Startup, everything including startup items until my office is there, the system's busiest has been reduced to about 1/4 or 1/5 while she was before.   I have a new system of hearts for my office, so sometimes I think that it still seems a bit slow, but there is a world of difference between a modern quad core system and this old laptop P4 architecture, etc..  But okay, the laptop works fine now in Windows.  Now I'll have to see what it looks like for Linux, because I have no idea what it uses for the driver ALi M5229.

  I think we can safely call this thread closed, how ever do you that.  Somehow, I thought she was going to be a bit obscure, and I guess you can say it was!

  Thank you all for any help here!

• Installation after laptop hard drive failure and replacement laptop with Mac instead of Windows

  I have a disk with two licenses for Lightroom 4.

  A license is on your Windows 7 Desktop and the other license on a laptop HP Windows

  The portable hard drive is dead.

  one) can I re install from the disc with the same serial number on a new laptop?

  (b) it was suggested to replace my laptop with a Mac laptop. Will I have problems installing on a Mac and/or Exchange catalogs with the existing Windows desktop

  (c) if I buy Lightroom 5 upgrade, can I only go to one or the other computer (laptop or desktop)?

  Thanks for any help or suggestion

  Hi RStyle1,

  Answers are below:

  (a) Yes, you can use the same disc and serial number to install on a new laptop, if you get an activation error message, you need to contact Adobe technical support.

  (b) the same serial number works on Windows and Mac.

  (c) you can always use Lightroom 4 If you upgrade to version 5, it is up to you to use both versions on machines at your disposal.

  Thank you!

  Ankit

• laptop - hard drive & RAM installation tips

  Hello

  I customize a new laptop for video editing and after reading the thread "'generic guideline for the configuration of disk", I decided to replace the optical Bay and install a third hard drive. "

  My idea is to install the operating system and programs on the mSATA SSD. However, the available SSD isn't a great write speed. This 'slow' write speed compromise the performance of the system?

  I have the possibility to replace the mSATA for a faster, however, with only 120GB (120 GB Kingston SSDNow mS200 mSATA (up to 550 MB/sR: 520 MB/sW))

  Or would it be better to replace one of the HDD for a faster SSD?

  Regarding the RAM is enough 16 GB? where do I go to 32 GB?

  Thanks for the tips.

  SYSTEM:

  Processor

  Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3840QM (2.80 GHz) 8 MB

  RAM

  16GB 1333 MHz MEMORY (2 x 8 GB) DDR3 SODIMM SAMSUNG

  mSATA SSD

  MSATA of Crucial M4 256 GB Solid State Drive (up to 500 MB/sR: 260MO/sW)

  Hard drive

  750 GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD7500BPKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16 MB CACHE (7200 RPM)

  2nd hard drive

  750 GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD7500BPKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16 MB CACHE (7200 RPM)

  The kingston HyperX is very good, but the mS200 mSATA uses the SandForce controller, in contrast with the Plextor using the Marvell controller. In general the SSD with a controller SF is more prone to the 'stable state' performance degradation than SSD with Marvell controller. However, given that this is only for OS & programs, degradation of Scripture is not so important, it will be used mainly to read, not write. If the choice is between Kingston and keep your warranty or the Plextor and voiding your warranty, I would choose the Kingston, also because the write performance is not so important on your startup disk.

• Computer HP laptop slim 500 GB HARD drive: used for HP laptop HARD drive upgraded to Win 10 Pro with key now stuck after HP Drive Encryption Login

  I bought a portable hard drive used HP for the upgrade of my Lenovo G550 with ugraded CPU with Intel's CORE DUO T9300 2.50 ghz

  (HP hard drive: computer laptop slim drive HARD 500 GB SERIAL ATA DISK DRIVE S/N W627S9NL P/N 756731-001 MFG Seagate Technologies DOM 8 / 2015)

  I was happy to see that the hatd drive had already installed because Windows 7 I had bought already separate legitimate Windows 10 Pro license key for the upgrade. I was able to go online and download the upgrade of Windows 10 and used my purchased license key to activate my updated.

  While doing the installation, there are some HP software that was still on the hard drive. I thought it would be good to have some additional security protocols, so I also installed the WinMagic Securedoc Bootloader v1.2.12 and saved the drive encryption HP with the security issues and password for secondary access.

  10 Windows has been activated and everything was beautiful. But when I restarted the laptop, I put my password for windows and then it goes to this screen of disc HP encryption rises. I put the password and it is accepted - and then the screen turns white... not offshore... jblank TEU with a cursor flashing that doesbn can't react to inputs.

  I tried leaving it for a day or so and still nothing.  There is nothing I can change in the configuration of the BIOS that works so far.

  I also tried Reimage download on USB and re-creation of the sequence of boot, but not good. Even tried a boot drive, but nothing there either. I'll try again.

  I don't know where to go or how to get beyond the screen of HP encryption.  I am pretty good at following directions, I don't know coding, but may do what you suggest to help me fix this problem.

  Can you help me?

  Sorry... I missed the part that you have a license Win10.  I thought you were trying to activate 10 using the OEM HP license and causing problems.

  I do not use HP encryption applications - as having recently completed a career in the InfoSec, I personally focus together on the encryption of the PC to be laughable-, but my guess is that you are basically out of luck.

  If it was my drive, I WIPE the drive of all its content and then again install Win10.  A good product to do i.e. DBan: http://tiptopsecurity.com/how-to-securely-wipe-your-hard-drive-with-dban-erase-your-data-for-good/

  Once your disc is clean, then simply install Win10 on it.

  That said, with a bit of luck, one of the HP EXPERTS will probably come along and tell you how to get around their encryption.

  Good luck

• Damaged laptop hard drives can be recovered?

  Hello

  I hope you can answer my question, as I've had a little trouble with my TOSHIBA Satellite Pro

  The strap of my laptop broke so that on my shoulder, and the bag bag fell to the floor. In 1 of the card slots PC is a wireless LAN adapter. (Bad luck) wanted that it was on the side of the laptop that hit the ground, causing the map being pushed higher in the side of the laptop about an inch

  Since then, the laptop has not started up.

  2 questions:

  1. do you know what hardware is close the PC card slots, and if they are difficult to repair/replace

  2. If the laptop is completely been goosed, is it possible to use the hard drive from Toshiba Satellite Pro and ask a farm to copy all information/data from the old hard drive to the new hard drive?

  Thank you
  brand

  Hello Mark

  In my opinion, you should contact Toshiba service partner allowed in your country and explain to them the situation. Toshiba laptops have no standard hardware architecture and you'll be lucky if anyone can give you correct answer (you didn't mention WHAT Satellite Pro you have). On this way, we can only speculate because nobody knows how much is the damaged laptop.

  I suppose that the HARD drive is no longer usable but you can try to connect to another laptop as external, then check if the HARD drive works or not.

  If you have important data on this topic you can contact some IT closes that are able to save the data. Everything is possible, but it will cost a little more.