laptop hard drive help

[scraps]

my girlfriends hp pavillion dv(6000 we think, laptop not here) which needs the hard drive replaced. Will any 2.5" SATA drive be ok?

also if i wanted to copy some files over or maybe clone the drive what hardware would i need for this?

The computer man in the shop said it would be possible with a price tag just shy of £200.

Any advice would be greatly apreciated.

[watercooled]

quoted £200 for the harddrive ?

[Pancake]

£200!!?!? WHAT!

Any 2.5 SATA will do, Use a trial of acronis true image to clone them.

Can just stick it in your desktop as a 2nd drive and do it. or get a USB adapter

[watercooled]

where are you located ?

[Pancake]

quoted £200 for the harddrive ?

Put your avatar back :rolleyes:

Its going to take me weeks to get used to that :surprised:

[watercooled]

lol...

[Lorem-Ipsum]

You use Linux watercooled?

If not...... change your avatar!!!!!

[watercooled]

You use Linux watercooled?

If not...... change your avatar!!!!!


nope sorry i dont

[Spaceboy]

Put your avatar back :rolleyes:

Its going to take me weeks to get used to that :surprised:


You use Linux watercooled?

If not...... change your avatar!!!!!

+1 +1 ;) What these guys said!

[scraps]

quoted £200 for the harddrive ?

around £170 for replacement and to clone drive a quick uneducated glance at this site and i knew i she was being done

[ThunderFlash]

200? I'm gonna sell mine for about 30 or so, so I dunno where they are plucking that number out for data transfer

[FlasH]

The company might charge separately for hardware repair/replacement and for their labour, which is probably done by the time spent on it.

That or they are mugging you off. HDDs are cheap, and would be very easy to do yourself.

Only problem I can see is your laptop which is renowned for the GFX fault, so I would just get a new laptop tbh.

[Guest]

They might be charging based on data recovery rather than data transfer. Either way they must be making a mint.

[jason]

The drive wont cost alot the data recovery can be alot, id fix the laptop your self or get one of us close to you to assist you there must be a computer enthusiast close to you in the family maby?
if you have the windows sticker on the laptop still you should be able to reuse the key if you have an oem windows cd.
Then the data recovery , you can look around for a better price or try to get the data your self with an external enclosure + the freezer trick.

[scraps]

I bought the Hitachi HTS545050B9A300 500gb which is sata II and the port seems to be physicaly different, I'm guessing SATA I.

Is there some way to adapt this to fit? or am i going to need a new drive?

If so does anyone want a SATA II 500GB 2.5" HDD? lol

Note: the laptop is a hp pavilion dv6500

[TheMadDutchDude]

I think your laptop is IDE and you've just purchased SATA.

Could you get us a picture of the two together so we can be 100% sure? I'm only guessing here. Mainly because SATA I and II are identical so that's not the difference.

[NickCPC]

Hmm - according to this on page 11 (http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01120535.pdf), it should be a 9.5mm SATA HDD (SATA II HDDs are, as TMMD said, backward compatible with SATA I). However, it looks like there's hundreds of variations on the dv6500 - is there a more specific model number anywhere by any chance?

As TMMD also has said though, a picture of the laptop's HDD bay with no drive in would be very useful, so we can confirm.

[scraps]

http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j451/scraps851/OldDrive.jpgthis is the old drive
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j451/scraps851/NewDrive.jpgthis is the new drive
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j451/scraps851/Hole.jpgand this is the hole.

I apologise for the crudeness of the photos and the post i'm no expert at either.

[NickCPC]

Hmm, that looks correct - it's definitely a SATA HDD you've got, and it looks like a SATA port in the laptop but needing an adapter, which you appear to have fitted in the top photo. With that adapter on the HDD, it should just "sink" in to the available slots on the laptop port. Make sure you have the HDD facing the right way otherwise it obviously won't go in!

[Pancake]

Just take the adapter off the old one and put onto the new one

[scraps]

Ahh I see. i didn't realise it came off. i have done this and now i have a fully functioning hdd.

thanks to all who helped

sorry i'm a forum noob and haven't yet worked out how to "thank" if someone could let me know i will do my duty.

[Pancake]

Haha, we all have to learn sometime. There is a "Thanks" button on the right of the posts

[NickCPC]

Excellent, hopefully that's saved you a bit of cash over the extortionate quote you had from the repair shop!

There should be a "Thanks" button in the bottom right hand corner of the post you want to thank, but you might have to have 10 posts (can't remember off the top of my head) :) Glad we could help though, as long as it's all sorted :thumb:

[therealmrhead]

I would go back in to that computer guy just out of interest and get a breakdown of that £200 charge, I bet he saw a woman and thought, here's my chance to make some extra cash.