Equium L300 HDD upgrade

I want to upgrade my L300 from 120GB HDD to as big as possible - at least 500GB if possible.
Can I do this and if so what drive should I buy?
The current drive is a Hitachi 5K250 that has a max size of 250GB. Could I use a 5K500 that goes up to 500GB?
Thanks for reading and any advice,
Les

Hi
In my opinion there is no best HDD. The differences between HDDs are to very slightly. So you can buy what you want.
The only important point in my opinion is the rpm (rounds per minutes). There are HDDs with 5400rpm and 7200rpm. Latter needs more power and produces more heat but as you can think the performance is a little bit better but only necessary if you often work with large files (e. g. games).
For normal usage I would recommend a HDD with 5400rpm.

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I dont know which notebook model do you have but if recovery image is Vista it must be pretty old model, maybe Equium A200.
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Post please model name and which HDD have you inside now.
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Theoretically it should be possible. Clonezilla is not known to me but in the past many people have done similar thing using other applications like Acronis. In your case I think you must use Clonezilla Live.
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There is already a thread with a similar problem to this with a different model, but it seems to have died.
The CD/DVD drive on my Equium L300-148 now refuses to read disks. It seems to burn them still, which is strange.
That must mean the laser has not burnt out, and the drivers seem to be working correctly.
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I have tried a "Disable" then "Enable" in the Device Manager, but I have not tried uninstalling the drive then restarting.
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To make things clear: there are no much options you can try. You can try to remove optical disc drive from device manager and restart the notebook. The drive will be recognized automatically and the drive will be ready for use.
Can you tell us more about this issue?
Which formats you have tried to open? DVD movies, music CDs, different data files?
Is there some error message?
If you don't have external HDD you can save all important data onto empty DVD medias.
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What you can do is to contact nearest service provider. They can install recovery image on separate HDD and test the functionality. If there is some serious problem the drive will be replaced for free (if the warranty is still valid).

Is Satellite L300 the same as Equium L300?

Are the the same or not?
I am a fan of Toshiba.
1 year ago I bought a Toshiba L30-105 which in my opinion was good enough for my work. It was only ATI X200m, 80GB and I upgraded memory to 2Gb bus 667Mhz memory which work perfectly (Ram 667Mhz, GPU 333Mhz).
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It is too late for me to change a new computer now. However, I write this to hope that TOSHIBA would have new BIOS upgrade so that the computer will fully supply Dram Bus 667MHZ and better Mem/GPU clock which is as shown on Intel website.

Thank you for your reply. I understand what you mean as I am not a normal user. I know what to do to boost up the computer performance.
For the software, I already used msconfig to turn off stuff I don't want and updated the newest drivers for it (At the moment, on Support site, Toshiba still hasn't updated the newest graphics/raid drivers for Vista which were out on Intel site on 25/04/2008 so I had to install manually). I also added another 1Gb Ram bus 667MHz from Huyndai (same made) but the bus just run at 533MHz
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The problem is when I do thoroughly RT#M, and instead of telling me how to keep the recovery partition safe from damage, the manual just tells me not to edit the partitions at all. Even worse, it tells me not to edit the partition table in a manner not recommended by the user's guide even though *there is no recommendation about partition tables in the user's guide to start with*.
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Welcome to Lenovo Community!
As per the query we understood that you are facing issue with system not booting in your Lenovo G560 laptop.
As you have mentioned that the system not booting, please try to remove the RAM and turn on the system and check if you can hear any beep sound. Also try to clean the RAM slots and check for the issue.
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