Upgrade Disk

zeke1312

zeke1312

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I have a HP Pavilion dv9810us with a 160 g drive installed. The disk is partitioned from HP to hold a mirror copy in case of failure.
I would like to upgrade to a 320 g 7200 rpm disk drive. When using a clone/mirror interface to port over to the new disk, will be able to see and use the additional disk space? Thank you
 
Just add the 320GB drive in as a slave and use it for storage and have the 160GB for your OS.
 
What I want to do is clone the 160, remove it (and use it via usb). Then install the expanded 320 7200 rpm drive into the notebook. That setup would give me 160 more disk and 54 vs 7200 rpm s ata disk I/O vs a usb I/O. The question is when I mirror the 160 to the 320, will the additional disk space be usable?
 
Use Acronis True Image and you will easily have your 320 drive set with all your data on it, even the OS will be transferred, and you will see all 320gigs of your drive.
 
Got it done! Used Apricorn and swapped my 160 with a 320 w/o any problem. It does appear with some operations, the 7200rpm 320gb is faster than the 5200rpm 160gb. I have a partition which it ported to the new drive. Looks good!
 
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