Replacing my burnt out hard drive

[amber_breez]

Hello,
can i replace my old sata hard drive in my hp dv7 laptop with one that has more gigabytes or will it over load my mother board

 

[cmichael138]

Looks like you can upgrade to 1TB:

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/series/category/notebooks/dv7t_series/3/computer_store

 

[rolli59]

Yes you can the size of the drive will not matter for the load on the computer!

 

[amber_breez]

Hello,
can i replace my old sata hard drive in my hp dv7 laptop with one that has more gigabytes or will it over load my mother board

ok so i have a copy of my dv7 disk that i made when i bought the computer has windows vista on it can i use that on new hard drive or will i have to buy another windows cd

 

[rolli59]

You can use your original since it is the same computer.

 

[amber_breez]

You can use your original since it is the same computer.

it is just a copy that i did when bought the computer you know hp tells you to make copy of cd's in case any thing goes wrong so i can use them on a new hard drive

 

[rolli59]

Yes exactly the reason they suggested making it! The OS is licensed to the computer/motherboard so using it on the new HDD is within the license agreement!

 

[amber_breez]

Best answer selected by amber_breez.

 

[amber_breez]

thanks every one for your help

 

[Mousemonkey]

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