How do I replace hard drive & add RAM on a HP Pavillion a1410y...

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I've not done a hard drive replacement and RAM Upgrade on one of these. Is it easy? Can somebody please give me a quick little step by step? Greatly apreciated.
 
thats easy just turn off the thing unplug cable, open casing,look for a vertical green bar :p(called ram, near the upper right end of the mobo) remove it, look for a Big Black/silver device (called a hard drive) and remove it ,done

on some Pc's it's required to slide open both, left and right sides of the casing to remove the hard drive at it's screwed on both sides
 
patrickv said:
thats easy just turn off the thing unplug cable, open casing,look for a vertical green bar :p(called ram, near the upper right end of the mobo) remove it, look for a Big Black/silver device (called a hard drive) and remove it ,done

on some Pc's it's required to slide open both, left and right sides of the casing to remove the hard drive at it's screwed on both sides
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Thanks but what is mobo?
 
Doesn't matter but if you are going to replace your primary hard drive where the operative system you should have a xp/vista disk to reinstall the operative system ( restore disk doesn't work), the ram should be the easier to do
 
chupacabra said:
Doesn't matter but if you are going to replace your primary hard drive where the operative system you should have a xp/vista disk to reinstall the operative system ( restore disk doesn't work), the ram should be the easier to do
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Do you mean the restore disk on the PC or an actual restore disk?

Why doesn't it work?
 
SHO said:
Do you mean the restore disk on the PC or an actual restore disk?

Why doesn't it work?
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BS from microsoft is the shortest answer, it needs the real hardware that came with the computer, if you just add the new hard dive instead of swapping then you won't need to re-install/re-format, just use a tool like gparted to allocate the new space
 
Removing/adding HDs is pretty easy, Just be careful with what you unplug and don't forget to plug back the cables on your HD.

Also you should look for the HD Jumper settings, whether you want it as "Master" or "Slave". If you want to replace by just one HD, make sure it is set on "master".

PS: HD= Hard-Drive :P:D

Webbenji
 
webbenji said:
Removing/adding HDs is pretty easy, Just be careful with what you unplug and don't forget to plug back the cables on your HD.

Also you should look for the HD Jumper settings, whether you want it as "Master" or "Slave". If you want to replace by just one HD, make sure it is set on "master".

PS: HD= Hard-Drive :P:D

Webbenji
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LOL at the jumpers webbenji, those aren't use anymore on recent computers, just sata for hard drives and ide for cd/dvds
 
OK... And?
I don't see his HD type...
Just a picture... My computer had jumpers and is as good looking as this one...
 
It could be either. Going by the parts ording guide if it's a 250GB drive it is SATA if it's 160GB or 80GB it is PATA.
 
webbenji said:
LOL at you, from what I've read, his computer isn't recent...
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It's actually my Mom's and it's less than a year old I think. She bought the new hard drive from where ever she originally bought the computer and the new HD has 500Gig, she says. Plus she bought whatever RAM they sold her (I hope its the right stuff) and guess whose job it is to put it all in correctly...
 
I think I need more advice. Please...

The new hard drive I'm installing is to be a second hard drive that my Mom will use solely for her data files. All her programs will remain on the original hard drive.

The hard drive being used now came already in the computer when she originally got it and had the OS (Windows XP) on it. She didn't get an OS disk with the computer and turns out, she did not create a boot disk for it.

She told me she has an XP Disc that she used on another desktop but I don't know if I can use it on the HP Pavillion.

:eek:

Thanks in advance.
 
SHO said:
I think I need more advice. Please...

The new hard drive I'm installing is to be a second hard drive that my Mom will use solely for her data files. All her programs will remain on the original hard drive.

The hard drive being used now came already in the computer when she originally got it and had the OS (Windows XP) on it. She didn't get an OS disk with the computer and turns out, she did not create a boot disk for it.

She told me she has an XP Disc that she used on another desktop but I don't know if I can use it on the HP Pavillion.

:eek:

Thanks in advance.
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Should be fine if what she wants is to add an extra hard drive, no re-installs but a format for the new hard drive should be need just in case
 
Will this new drive go in a slot right near the main drive?

And after I install the new drive, how do I format it?
 
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