Equium U400-145 HDD upgrade

Hi,
I have a Toshiba Equium U400-145 and it currently has Windows 7 on it, and a 160GB hard disk. Is it possible to upgrade to a larger (1TB) hard disk, and if so can I use another external HDD (ie connected by USB) to take an image of the current one using Clonezilla, then do the hardware upgrade and restore the image to the new drive once its fitted? (Or would Windows 7 need to be reinstalled)?

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.
U400 is god machine and runs perfectly with Windows 7. I don't know if you were able to install it perfectly including all necessary drivers, tools and utilities.
Back to HDD upgrade. I don't have this machine and cannot say for sure is everything will be OK but I think new HDD should be recognized properly with full 1TB capacity.

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Sorry but I can find it there. I am asking what you are doing wrong. It is so easy. There is just one Equium U400 available. It is PSU42E and it is exact your model.
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Hmm... And why you dont buy the same AC adapter again? Are you not satisfied with it?
I mean if you search with this part number on Google you will find some online shops where you can buy this adapter.
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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.
To be honest I didn't make experiments with HDD upgrade on older models but I can imagine recovery image make a problems with HDDs with huge capacity.
Post please model name and which HDD have you inside now.
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I think this could be a temporal server issue and I think this should be fixed in the next time
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Do you see yellow exclamation marks in device manager on ODD?
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as i am reading your posts correctly with the magnifier and changing colors to inverted everything is ok?
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Here you can find the database with all ASPs worldwide:
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