The T500 replacement hard drive issues

Hi Lenovo community,

My question is about replacing the stock 120 GB of HARD drive that was installed with my laptop factory T500 with a Western Digital Scorpio or portable HARD drive.

  • First of all, this is would be voids any warranty factory supplied with the laptop (it's this last year)?
  • Secondly, if I did a transfer of all of the files from my original HARD drive to the new would I have to manually partition the drive to have the backup and startup disks function normally?
  • Finally, the APS would still normally work?

I appreciate the advice and provide solutions.

Thanks advance!

(1) guaranteed Yes is kept for all parts of your laptop other than the spare hard drive

(2) burn a set of recovery media and then burn the rescue and recovery backup disks, after installing the new hard drive, then restore your hard drive using the support recovery and restore your Windows and software using rescue and recovery backup disks.

(3) Yes, whatever the new SATA drive have distinctive head of parking.

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