“does this replace my old HD Does this replace my old hard drive? or is it an add on. I just bought a hp 750gb hard drive laptop and want to upgrade as its already only got 500gb left. What will happen to my OS and so on?”
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It replace your old hard drive, improve performance.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.This would replace your hard drive and upgrade the space.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes, it will replace your old drive if you have a 9.5mm thick drive. You will have to setup the drive, install your OS and so on, or use a cloning software.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It would replace your old hard drive and all kd your info would stay on the old one. You can buy software and a cable at best buy that will transfer all of that stuff to the new hard drive.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes it would replace your old hard drive. I would just Clone the drive. You set it up like a regular hard drive. The hard drive decides what to put on the six gb of the SSD. It's part of seagate technology.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes, this is a replacement hard drive. Or technically you could buy an enclosure for it and add the 1TB to your existing system. But you'd need to plug it into your computer each time you wanted to use it. Using a cloning product like Carbon Copy Cloner is very easy to do and will duplicate all of your info onto your new drive. OS, pictures,music…everything! Just google "replacing laptop hard drive" and add your make/model or go to OWC(One world computing) website for very good videos. It literally takes 15 minutes to replace and about 2-4 hours to clone the drive. I recommend buying an enclosure for the drive, putting the new drive into the enclosure and plugging it into the computer, downloading the cloning program, and cloning to the new drive. If you want to take it a step further, you can boot from the new external drive to test that it works. Then power down, remove the old drive, install the new drive, and put the old drive into the enclosure. Now you have a backup drive as of the date of replacement. Good luck!
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.If your laptop is designed to allow space for the added HD then yes you can simply add it to the system. If it does not have a HD open drive bay then you will have to swap it out. Purchase the StarTech eSata/usb drive imager and just make copy of existing drive then install the new one where the old one now is. This is the quickest and easiest way otherwise you have to setup the drive completely from scratch and that takes a lot of time.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.This will physically be able to replace your existing laptop drive. What I would suggest you do is install the drive into a portable external drive and install a fresh OS there. Once thats done, perform the physical swap. This way your original drive has all its data intact and you can either access it or transfer it onto the new one. Hope this helps.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.if you've already established a time machine I got a simply do is install this new drive and download the operating system that's quick and easy set-up. then you restore the new drive from your Time Machine backup. there will still be information on your old hard drive the youth pulled out. if you want to clean that drive the best way it is to either put it in exterior case or purchase a hard drive dock.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I believe the strength for this drive is as a boot drive. You should be able to use it as a secondary drive if you wanted to. As far as your OS and such, it's a bare drive, so you would have to install from scratch. If you have original system recovery disks, that makes it easier.
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