Help! Upgrading laptop hard drive

[Zenara25]

I have an HP Omnibook 4150b 500mhz laptop with a 4gb drive. HP told me I could upgrade to thier 18GB drive for $200! Should I just buy a 20gb drive from newegg for $80? Or do you think this won't work?

 

[jimmypop]

buy a 40gb 5400rpm drive from me in the FS/FT forum, only $95 including shippping

there's no reason a 20gb wouldn't work, though.

 

[ShellGuy]

There is a possability that it may have a max drive size. I know that older desktop systems must be limited to 35gb i think. Not sure if it would aply to lappys too. HP should be able to tell you what the max drive size is..

Will

 

[Zenara25]

Does that mean that the drive would be completely useless or just that it would only be able to use the maxiumum size limitation?

 

[ShellGuy]

If you can limit lappy Hdds then you would only be able to use up to the stated max. Which for some desktops is 35gb.



Will

 

[imported_haris]

I'm planning on upgrading my 60GB 4200rpm drive with a 60GB 7200rpm Hitachi. But I was wondering if there is an easy way to get all of my software and data copied to the new drive, without needing to re-install/patch everything and reset all my profiles/settings?

 

[Belteshazzar]

haris, there are programs that can duplicate (clone) hard drives. I think Norton's Ghost is one of them

 

[Links4me]

I have an older IBM PII 366 and I upgraded to a 20gb hdd. I had no issues.....I would go for it....if you have problems you may have to flash the bios to the latest version, but I wouldn't do that unless you have to.

 

[PlatinumGold]

do you plan on reinstalling everything from scratch?? if so, then just buy a HDD from anywhere, plug it in and go.

if you want all your current settings, data etc migrated over, 1) buy 2 Laptop HDD adapters (allowing you to plug the laptop HDD into a regular system) and use a Maxtor/WD/Hitachi utility that will allow you to do a sector copy from old HDD to new HDD.