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how do I install a hard drive upgrade for hp pavillion ze4805us computer

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June 11 4:21 PM (21 minutes and 11 seconds later)
         
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do you want to run 2 hard drives (which is much easier to do) or do you want to have just one in your PC?

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June 11 4:58 PM (37 minutes and 16 seconds later)
         
Reply to spiritpresent's Post: well, it is quite complicated. I originally just wanted to add an external drive--my usb is 1.1 so I bought a 4 port usb 2.0 hub with a pcmcia card---I could never get the stupid thing to assign it a drive letter even after weeks of trying--so now I want to replace my old 60gb hard drive with a 120 gb notebook hard drive which I was told would fit into my hp pavilion ze4805us with no problem. However, HP does not provide instructions for how to get the old one out and the old one, at least what I can see of it looks nothing like the new one I was sent. Also I bought a EZ gigII thing that is supposed to copy the old hard drive onto the new one--but it inserts into the pcmcia slot and the stupid computer refuses to recognize it or assign it a drive letter. I am about ready to throw the whole thing into the junk pile except I've already gone through 2 other notebooks cause they get outdated so fast.
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June 11 6:11 PM (1 hour and 12 minutes and 8 seconds later)
         
What operating system are you using?
Before you swap out the hard drives, to clone one to the other, your first going to have to have a letter assigned to the second hard drive and run them both at the same time.
I recomend using Norton ghost, as it is very reliable.

here is some info that you might find a little helpful
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00133452.pdf

From what you say, if the new hard drive isn't going to fit in the slot, you may have to exchange it for another one.

Unfortunately, some notebooks drives, hard drives, cds, dvd, etc
are vendor specific, meaning you have to use theirs.



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