Replacing hard drive on a HP Pavilion dv9700

I just ordered a replacement hd for data D: my wife by car for Christmas.  Looking at the online manual and the underside of the laptop, I see the two drive Bay covers.  My question is how can I find out what bay is the C: and D: drive?  Both drives in there at the moment are the same model and capacity so looking on the label of each of them will not help.

While browsing through 100 or so previous discussions on the replacement of the hd on the DV9700, I read something about a possible problem with a more capacious disk works does not in this unit. Maybe a BIOS update corrects this problem.  I ordered the same Seagate Momentus 7200 RPM 9.5 mm height SATA drive that is in it now, with the exception of the largest capacity.  The old is 120 GB.  The news is 750Go.  No one knows for sure whether this will or will not work in the secondary drive Bay?

The berries are labeled inside as I recall and repair shows which is the main and the secondary image. If all else fails remove one then the other and one that always starts with Windows is the main. Conventional wisdom has been that you cannot use a disk that is larger than 200 concerts in the high Bay, but we just had a post here explaining how the user got a 7200 RPM 500 GB drive to work in a dv9000 secondary Bay.

Another dv9000 second hdd post

Manual

I'm sure that the primary Bay is that the door right stop against the door of memory.

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