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I have an HP Pavilion a4310f desktop. Win 7, 4gb RAM, 640GB HD. I am considering purchase of an additional drive for storage of many large files. Failed to find pertinent information on HP website. Can anyone provide info on where to find this info? Is it worth considering a lower priced, non-HP product?
Thanx.
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accompanied by your PC and are available online.
Here's some info I found on the HP website.... http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01859455.pdf
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Thank you for your guidance. Greatly appreciated.
Do think it is practical to purchase a non-HP product? I am living on disability payments and find HP parts out of my price range. Any particular suggestions?
Thanx again.
So any hard drive will by definition not be a HP product.
Bob
the drive type(s) compatible with my system...usually SATA and I head over to Newegg.com where I look for the HDDs in the capacity I'm looking for with the highest rating/customer satisfaction. The drive type for your current system is SATA II also.
Here's some options with pricing and user reviews/ratings.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007603%20600003459%20600003340%20600003269&IsNodeId=1&name=1TB%20and%20higher&Order=RATING&Pagesize=20
Let us know how it works out.
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I didn't look but adding a second drive is considered a beginner's task. You power off, open the case, mount the drive, hook it up and button it. Prepare the drive in Windows and use it.
The only bothersome statement you made was to call it storage. Many find out these are fine copies and if we don't have a backup, then where to recover those files?
Bob
Sorry for my confusion. Perhaps you were indicating a backup drive must be external, but did not make this clear.
Computer tasks are NEVER as easy as they are made out to be by the experts.
If you cover what BACKUP is, it is multiple copies and at least one copy at another site. What good is backup if the house burns?
If my house were burning down, the last thing I would be concerned with is the information on my computer. I would be more concerned with finding somewhere else to live.
I suppose I am looking for a second hd for storage as I am down from 64 on my 0GB to 67GB on my hd.
Sorry. This HP Mini 110 netbook is not working so well.
HD is down from 640GB to 67GB due to large file downloads.
I fear you may be learning the lesson first hand. It's not a big deal but at least you heard what the issue was.
Bob
According to my BIOS, the motherboard will handle two more drives; one optical and one SATA.
I have transferred some of the large files to my old dell drive, so this may serve as storage; it has 250GB space.
As you said, I still need a way of backing up my data. I don't know if DVD DL will be suitable. Will have to ponder this.
Thanx for your input.
install another HDD inside the lower case or in one of the 5.25" drive bays.
Are there two SATA connectors ? If yes you should be able to use them for an any SATA drive....HDD, optical or whatever else might use the interface.
VAPCMD
After a few months of consideration (as well as an unexpected gift of cash), you are very obviously correct.
The backup drive must be my primary consideration. This is frustrating because I was given a 1TB Lacie Rugged XL backup which fails to function with my Win 7 computer. However, as you indicted, the backupdrive is my first concern.
I Thank you again for straightening me out on this subject.
The most common thing I run into is the partition or format of such a drive is incompatible.
"We have ways to ..."
From data recovery to getting the files out by booting a LiveCD, please make a new post on your new issue.
Bob
I have tried to solve the Lacie/Win 7 problem with input from several places, to no avail.
The final conflict was that Lacie claims it is compatible, microsoft states clearly on their website that it is not.
Nobody was able to solve this, so I gave up. THIS lacie backup drive will not function with MY computer. Peraps there is a defect in this regard with my particular HP Pavilion.
I thus see no point in starting another post on Cnet and taking up people's time.
Thank you for your input.
Not the drive but the Lacie software. This is why I thought it worth a try.
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