1.0 terabyte Internal Hard Drive does not fit in my HP G70-200 Notebook

Replacing my Toshiba MK3252GSX ATA 300GB Hard Drive with a Western Digital 1TB but when I went to replace the hard drive dimensions of the WD drive were bigger then the hard drive compartment. Does anyone know where I can get a 1TB HD that will fit into the HP G70-200 I have looked but have not had any luck finding.

Hi,
Hope you've done research before going out to buy 2.5" 1TB HDD. They won't fit to our current laptops physically because they are a bit thicker and laptop vendors are trying to make their laptops thinner. Hope one day WD, Seagate, Samsung, Toshima, Hitachi .... will make their 2.5" 1TB HDD's thinner or better, they make SSD's cheaper and bigger (in capacity).
BH
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