Can I install a SATA III HDR in my Pavillion dv6628us laptop?

I would like to know if I can install a SATA III hde in my laptop before I purchase one. Thank you.

Yes it will be a major upgrade but frankly I might hesitate to spend more on an upgrade to a laptop than the laptop itself is worth. Kind of like putting $5000 of rims and tires on a $2000 car. Makes it look nicer and maybe ride better but what have you really got? You would be better off buying a $5000 car.

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How many IDE drives & CDrom can be installed with SATA drives??
i have 2 IDE hard disks & 2 CDROM drives: can install SATA hard disk added to these drives or do i have to remove some???
& if it can be added, can i install 2 SATA drives???
THX in advance

The 3 versions of this board that are available are:
875P Neo-FISR (PCB 2.0)
875P Neo-LSR (PCB 1.0)
875P Neo-FIS2R (PCB 1.0)
All of these boards will have the following ports provider by the chipsets ICH5R south bridge.
2 x SATA (Supporting 2 SATA HDD drives)
2 x PATA (Supporting 4 IDE devices)
All 6 of these can be used at the same time (provided you are using win XP or 2K) you just need to make sure yor BIOS is set right.
->INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS
->ON-CHIP IDE CONFIG
ATA CONFIG: S-ATA ONLY or P-ATA ONLY
S-ATA/P-ATA KEEP ENABLED: YES
OPERATE MODE:
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If you have the 875P Neo-FIS2R (PCB 1.0) you will also have the following ports provided by the Promise PDC20378 PCI controller:
2 x SATA (Supporting 2 SATA HDD drives)
1 x PATA (Supporting 1 Master IDE HDD drive)
The PATA port is limited to 1 Master HDD by the lite BIOS. This can in theory be upgraded to the full BIOS supporting a master and a slave, but this may obviously void your warranty.
So the answer to your origional question is:
2 x SATA HDDs and 4 x IDE HDD/CDROM if you have 875P Neo-FISR (PCB 2.0) or 875P Neo-LSR (PCB 1.0)
or
4 x SATA HDDs, 1 x IDE HDD (2 if you modify the BIOS) and 4 x IDE HDD/CDROM if you have 875P Neo-FIS2R (PCB 1.0)

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Originally posted by Cozman
hmmmmm as far as i know u still have to enter the via sata bios to tell it it has a single drive .. or it wont be seen by the windows driver during the install process ... although ur not createing a raid array .. u do need the sata bios to know it has a drive connected by creating an array ... thats what ive found through experience although i could be wrong in this case .. im no expert
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I have install Win2Kpro_SP4 + WinXP_SP1 on a SATA Disk Seagate 160GB
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Can I install 2 hard drives in my HP Pavillion p6650z?

We need to get a new hard drive, and I want to migrate EVERYTHING on the original hard drive to the new one--not just files, but the OS and programs as well.
My question: Can I simply install a second (internal) hard drive inside the case of my p6650z?
That would make everything easier--I could then migrate everything on the old hard drive, to the new one.
I could then remove the old hdd or keep it there.....
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HERE is the user and servicing guide for that. The hard drive section starts on page 17. It appears there is room for two hard drives in the drive cage. There are four SATA ports on the motherboard, so that looks good to go, also.
If you expect to "move everything over to the new drive" - I would using a cloning software and just make the new hard drive the boot drive. Once you are satisfied with that and everything looks good to you, reformat the old drive for data usage. IMHO, clone the old drive to the new hard drive using either the cloning function available from hard drive manufacturer's site or use Acronis, then unplug the old one to make sure you have what you think is booting to the new hard drive to verify the new drive is good and has everything as you want. Then do whatever with the old drive for data.
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