ENVY dv7t-7200 Replace hard drive and restore from recovery disk/flash drive

I am replacing the HDD on my ENVY dv7t, running Windows 8. The existing drive is a 5400 rpm 1TB and I am replacing with a 750GB Seagate momentus XT.  Largely, the reason is performance and I don't need that large of a drive.  The plan is to remove the old drive and replace it with the 750GB mentioned above.  I have the Recovery image on a 32G thumb drive, so the plan is to restore the image on the new drive.
Any issues that I should be aware of?  Will this work?

Hi,
The dv7t-2000 is a CTO machine therefore I can't see its specs, I belive it has room for another HDD/SSD and you can utilize/utilise it. There are few known firmware problem with the 750GB Seagate momentus XT. Please check the firmware first (must be SD28 or later). Other than that should be fine.
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BH
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