| dame666 |
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| Sun Jul 20 2008 10:29 PM |
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Acer Aspire 7520 Harddrive Upgrade
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Hi
Can anyone tell or put me onto a tutorial,for fitting a bigger harddrive on my Acer Aspire 7520 vista 32 home premium laptop.Ive got two harddrives showing on screen as c and d at about 30gb each,would like to fit 320 or 500gb harddrive.One problem i do have is OS is preinstalled any help would be great
Thank you
| putasolutions |
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| Sun Jul 20 2008 11:01 PM |
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Re: Acer Aspire 7520 Harddrive Upgrade
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Your hard drive is partitioned into 2 parts, one for the system drive and one for the recovery, giving your entire drive a capacity of 60Gb
Virtually all the hard drives are made by the big 4, so it would be a case of taking your existing 60Gb hard drive out and seeing what markings are on the drive case. It is unlikely that you would get anything like that size, there are very few 2.5" drives that would fit. You may get a 160 or 250 but without knowing what you have at present, it would be difficult to say.
Your alternative would be to use a USB or network attached external drive, which would then allow you to attach drives of up to 750Gb to your lappie
| dame666 |
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| Thu Jul 24 2008 07:52 PM |
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Re: Acer Aspire 7520 Harddrive Upgrade
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Hi
Thank you for your advice,Ive had the base of my laptop off and found that there is space for another hard drive.I have now fitted another hard drive in the free space.took a bit of time to suss out how to get the computer to reconize the drive but everything is running fine,but the hard drive is showing as a primary partion i assume this will be ok
Thank you
| putasolutions |
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| Thu Jul 24 2008 08:08 PM |
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Re: Acer Aspire 7520 Harddrive Upgrade
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If the drive is showing as a primary partitioned drive, it seems it has already been used before, but it matters not. It should be more than adequate for what you need it to do
| dame666 |
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| Thu Jul 24 2008 08:15 PM |
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Re: Acer Aspire 7520 Harddrive Upgrade
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yes your right its from my ps3 i put a 360gb in the ps3.Ive only put a 60gb in laptop
Thanks
| putasolutions |
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| Thu Jul 24 2008 10:05 PM |
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Re: Acer Aspire 7520 Harddrive Upgrade
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I would suggest that unless you have already started putting data on it, that you reformat in NTFS format.
| malc_whiley |
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| Tue Jul 29 2008 06:37 AM |
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Re: Acer Aspire 7520 Harddrive Upgrade
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Reading this with great interest as we've just bought the same model . We're looking to put an extra drive in ourselves so wondering if the drive will be the same with slave and master jumpers as IDE ones we've replaced in the past ?
Dame666 what issues did you have with getting the drive recognised ?