Changing Harddrive

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I have a Compaq Presario 2170US laptop.
It has a 40 gig harddrive and I’m running out of room.
I picked up a Western Digital 250 gig drive.
I don’t see a small cover to get to the hard drive.

I guess I have to remove the bottom cover of the laptop. (new territory for me)

Is this going to be a hard project? I’ve done several desk tops but not a laptop.

Will the 250 gig be any problems?
The laptop was purchased at Best buy. It was the only one I could find.
I came with no instructions or software. (Best buy wants you to have them install it)

I backed up the old drive to a USB drive that should boot. Then I should be able to restore to the new drive.
If this won’t work, I can just do a new windows XP Home install. This would be OK.

Thanks for any info or suggestions.

John So

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This appears to be the user manual: Compaq Presario 2170US Notebook PC: Manuals (Service Manual at the bottom of the list includes this shot.)

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Notebooks can be strange beasts. You should make sure you have the most recent BIOS. I’d even try to contact HP support to make sure that a 250GB drive is supported in that PC.

Joe

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I I tried HP chat support and they said my new 250 GB drive would not work.

I tried it anyway and it works just fine.

JohnSo

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Well, glad it worked out. Thanks for posting back.

Joe

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I’m not surprised…I bet if you said you wanted to buy a 250g hd from THEM, well, THAT would work.

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