Can I use hard drive from bestbuy for my Pavilion dv5t-1000?

Hard drive is failing on my Pavilion dv5t-1000. Do I have to use an hp replacement hard disk because of a partition that hp adds to their hard disks for recovery? Can I use my HP Recovery Disks and recovery backups on a store-bought hard drive? No longer under warranty.
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Hi:
You should be able to do that with no problem.
Just make sure the disk drive you purchase is the same specification (SATA II, 2.5") and size in GB (or larger size) then the original one.
Paul

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I'll start of with the tl;dr:
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" I've got an early 2011 15" MBP with broken GPU."
You know there's a recall on that model:
Apple Recall:
https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/
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