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Hi,
I am needing a portable HDD for college and I was thinking I will replace the 120GB in my laptop with a 320GB and then use the 120GB with external caddy for college.
I am a photographer so I need more space on my laptop.
I have emailed Toshiba and tried to call, all to no avail. So can someone please try answer this question please...
If I put the 320GB HDD in my laptop and put the recovery CD in, will I be able to put the Vista Pre Install onto the 320GB drive?
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Doubt it, most manufacturers use a "hidden partition" to store the Vista Image, the restore CD is usually just to lanch the re-imaging software.
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I do have a 1.46gb hidden drive under disk management.
Is there nothing I can do at all to upgrade the HHD without having to buy Vista?
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The excerpt below is from a review of your laptop. It appears there is a second bay for a HDrive. So you should be able to add a second HDrive without removing the original.
“There are even two surprises. One is an empty bay inside the notebook for adding a second hard drive, if you're so inclined”. (One 120GB hard drive comes standard.)
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If you were to put the 320GB HDD in a USB External Enclosure, you would then be able to transfer all your non-College related Files and data off of the 120GB internal HDD, make plenty of capacity available for College work. Not have to mess around with moving VISTA and have a Safe removeable HDD that you could leave at home, rather than expose all your work to being lost if something happens to the Laptop.
Using Imaging software , you could also Backup the 120GB HDD and store the Image on the 320GB HDD safely stored away from the LT.
If you add another HDD to the LT and it should get Lost, Stolen, Dropped or whatever, the possibiliy exists the you would loose ALL your work.
YOu could also save some money by buying the less expensive 3.5 (desktop HDD) and USB External Enclosure. Laptop HDD's ain't cheap.
Just some food or thought.
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Oh my! I have a second bay?! I looked in the HDD bay not so long ago and actually thought 'there's alot of room in there' but as toshiba didnt reply to my email I wasn't sure.
Thank you ever so much. So I need two HDD's now! One for college and one for my laptop! My student loan is going go be spent before I even get a days interest!!
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To Dumbob;
Thanks for that! I already have a 1TB 3.5" drive that I back everything onto. I couldn't have a 3.5" drive for college though. It is not practical to be carrying a power lead too and the extra weight a 3.5" drive brings!
Laptop drives are pretty cheap. The 320GB is £55 so I will buy that and a 80GB/£28 one for college.
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Seems I do not have room for a second HDD. The 'second bay' is not a HDD bay. It is just some empty space. There's not enough room for a 2.5" HDD and no connectors for one either.
So my plan. Would appreciate if someone could give me advice on this...
I back up all my files. Restore my laptop to factory state. Install disk imaging software and make an image of my Vista installation. Put my new 320GB HDD in the 120GB's place. Use the imaging software to place the image I made onto the 320GB HDD.
Would that work?
My friend has a Vista DVD. If I use this and my Vista code from the bottom of the laptop, I should be able to install Vista on the 320GB drive?
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