new HDD for Amilo A1630 laptop...

[byrde147]

I would like a new HDD for my laptop as the existing one is only 4200rpm and seems to take ages to boot up. I think the boot up takes so long because the cpu throttles (mobile athlon 64) and the hdd is slow.

Can I just choose any 2.5" disk and get going or is it a bit more complicated? I just want a faster drive, ie. a 7200rpm.

Thanks.

 

[byrde147]

Thanks for that.....

I intend to install a fresh copy of Vista onto the new drive, therefore keeping the old drive in it's original state. I am assuming then that if something goes wrong with the Vista install, or it doesn't run correctly, I could revert back to my old HDD and boot up as before with Win XP?

I have all my documents etc. backed up onto an external HDD, so transferring the data across to the new drive should be straightforward enough.