laptop hard drive

Zzebotes13 · Post by **Zzebotes13** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:19 pm

i was thinking about getting a new laptop and was wondering if i could put the old harddrive in the new one. The old one is a HP comp and the new one is a Asus. is there any reason why this will cause the new one to work improperly, and will it cause bthe old one to not fuction properly as well

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:21 pm

As far as I know, there are two different sizes of laptop hard drives. What are the dimensions of the old one and the new one?

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:22 pm

Well if the hard drive is slim enough, then yes. I will tell you from personal experiance if you try to move a hard drive from a really old laptop (circa '97) to a new one like '05 laptop they will not work. Just be sure that your old laptop hard drive is less then 1/2" thick.

Zzebotes13 · Post by **Zzebotes13** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:40 pm

the old laptop is only a few months old. It's one of the newer hp pavillions

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:44 pm

It should work fine, though Windows XP (if installed) will whine and complain about it to no end.

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:06 pm

Step 1. On old laptop backup data.

Step 2. Put old hard drive in new laptop.

Step 3. Run a Active@ KillDisk to erase the drive completley

Step 4. Run Windows setup or whatever operating system you want and partition, format and install.

Of course these steps are only needed if your running XP because of Microsoft's stupid activation programs.

Zzebotes13 · Post by **Zzebotes13** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:15 pm

but i want to keep all the data that's on the hard drive.
- I want to use my old 100 GB hd w/ all my data on it, but i want to put it in the new laptop. her is the link to the new one http://www.avadirect.com/product_detail ... ?PRID=5540

sweetsuzuki · Post by **sweetsuzuki** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:08 pm

You could load the hard drive onto, like, 25 DVD's

elliott · Post by **elliott** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:21 pm

Zzebotes13 wrote:but i want to keep all the data that's on the hard drive.
- I want to use my old 100 GB hd w/ all my data on it, but i want to put it in the new laptop. her is the link to the new one http://www.avadirect.com/product_detail ... ?PRID=5540

It might work, but Windows will hate you. The only way I have been able to pull something like this off is to:
1. Install the drive.
2. Boot into Safe Mode.
3. Delete all devices you can from the Device Manager.
4. Reboot into normal Windows.
5. Install drvers for the new hardware.

Deleting all of the previous devices ensures that there will be no driver conflicts. This probably isn't the "right way", but it is the only way I have been able to make it work.