A new Hard drive for my laptop

Ricky91t

Hello all,
I have a Hp nx9010 laptop and its only got a 40gb harddrive id like too upgrade this to atleast 120gb and i need to know what hard drive will work in it,Id either like to get advice on ones at memoryC.com(had good expeirience with them) or shops in the uk that have quick postage or are based in london
spec on hp site here




I found this here which is meant to be a hrad disk for it

Please note that there is no bracket supplied with these hard drives. You will have to remove the bracket on your existing hard drive and install the bracket on the new drive.

High-performance and high-value solutions for mobile computing

Impressive Capacity and Performance in a Mobile Drive

Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM

Interface - ATA-100

Average seek time - 12.0 ms

Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML)

Intelligent Power Management :0.1 Watt in sleep mode.

S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)

Access time Access time : 12ms

Data Buffer (Cache) Data Buffer : 8MB

Device Type : Internal hard drive

Data Transfer Rate : 100 MBps

Form Factor (Drive) : 2.5-inch

OS Support OS Support : Windows® 95, Windows® 98, Windows® 2000, Windows® NT 4.0, Windows® XP

Reliability Specifications: MTBF 300,000 power on hours

High Shock Resistance: The drives are durable enough to withstand up to 700G non-operating shock

Warranty information Warranty terms :

Warranty Length: Three year manufacture warranty.

Coverage: Covers repair or replacement of the product.

Thanks all

Hal1

I use komplett most of the time for upgrades, they have a few 2.5" Hard drives you can see here there are other shops which some may recommend, so if you find one cheaper go with that. You will need to connect the new hard drive to your laptop, you can do this by using a 'hard drive caddy'. Then you will need to transfer your data to the new hard drive there are a few ways to do this, the best way would be to 'ghost or clone the drive' (its like an x-ray of your hard drive which is copied to a file). To do this you need something like 'Norton Ghost(free trial here)' It's really easy to use, let us know if it works out for you or if you need any more help with it.

Ricky91t

Hey hal1 thanks for the quick reply

Ill have a look at ghosting i know i have a ghosting program round here sopmewhere and ill be ok with that

See im fine with pcs i could happily buy parts for that with no problem but i dont wanna mess up with a laptop hard drive

Im considering downloading all drivers and giving it a clean install of xp pro sp2.
And that way i wont carry over any viruses if i have any.Then if i want i can get a caddy think iv got onelying around though and transfer the data to my older pc

Will let you know how i get on but might be a while
Thanks again

Overheal

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11599_na/11599_na.HTML#Options

according to the specsheet it can take up to an 80gb internal drive. Though that sheet was probably published when your lappy was made, it may be possible to put a bigger one in now.

Ricky91t

Oh no....So does that mean there a chance it wont work with anything bigger?or what?

Overheal

it probably just means that the 2.5" hard drives at the time had only reached up as far as 80GB. A modern day 320GB drive may take as much power to run as the 80GB did then. That would be the driving issue though. If you open up your lappy case it will say on the Hard Drive how much/what power it requires to operate. Its possible newer drives will eat more power. Check before buying.

Ricky91t

ok had a look at the HD it say "+5v 0.42A"


had a quick look on the samsung site and the 160gb hard drive operates at the same voltage
couldn't see the Amps but should be ok

Ricky91t

Does anyone know how fo find out if my bios will support a larger harddrive say 160gb or 250gb?