What HDD for my HP DV7 Laptop

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  1. koolyoe

    koolyoe Regular member

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    Hello, my current hard drive is failing. Ran chckdsk has bad sectors, fixed and keep getting errors, running slow etc. I am able to get it to work for a while but then it goes bad and slows again, chkdks is unable to repair most of the bad sectors.

    So I am looking for a new hard drive. Something that would be an upgrade but not too expensive.

    Current storage is 500gb I would be looking at 1tb or bigger.

    I am not too familiar with what is good and what is not.

    Thanks for the help.


    Product Name: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
    Product Number: PJ123PA#ABA
    Memory 6GB
    Windows 7 Home Premium
    64BIT OS
    Intel Core i7 Q720 1.60GHz 1.60GHz
     
    koolyoe, Apr 19, 2014
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    sata 2.5in drive, either wd or seagate.
     
    ddp, Apr 21, 2014
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  3. rengineer

    rengineer Newbie

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    I would get a SSD drive they're much faster.
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    unless you have 2 hard drive bays then stay with the regular mechanical drive not the ssd drive.
     
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