Hp g7000 hard drive upgrade HELP!

I have a HP Pavilion G7000/ G7015EA laptop, and after getting a WARRANTY ID - ERROR CODE 10008 on a hard drive self scan,HP told me I need to replace the hard drive. So I would like to upgrade to a faster 7200rpm and 250/300gig HDD(5200rpm - 160gb now fitted).But I have read on the net that you sould check if the BIOS will support a larger/faster HDD.The unit runs windows vista home premium(32bit) and has 2meg ram and I have installed BIOS version F.34, does anyone know if it will run/support a larger/faster HDD or how I can find out, before I buy the new hard drive.I am quite new to all this stuff and only learnt this in 3days any help is appreciated!!!!!!

Hello. I too own an hp g7XXX series laptop and wanted to upgrade the hard disc drive and graphics capabilty. The hp G7xxx series uses an IDE bus as opposed to a SATA interface. Upgrading the Hard disc is easy as long as you have a copy of the full operating system on CD. If not try to find a friend or colleague that has one. When you do install the new IDE drive by unsrewing the two screws inthe labeled cover on your laptop. unplug the old laptop and plug in the new one (with the laptop switched off.) Screw the cover back on and power up the laptop, with the bios screen available open the bios (del key or F1 or F2) then change boot sequence to boot from CD and install Vista from here with the product key on the bottom of your laptop. You will need to call INDIA microsoft to activate the system but this is almost hassle free (but not required) then voila!

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The only thing that I can think of is that your SATA cable may be bad... it's the first thing that I would try replacing. DIsk Utility wouldn't be able to detect a bad SATA cable - you'd just have random freezes and crashes.
I don't know that this is the solution to your problem, but it's the first thing I would attempt. 2009 models are notorious for having bad SATA cables - try PowerbookMedic and order a new one. If it doesn't fix the problem, call back.
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OWC
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I have a MacBook Pro and use Time Machine to back up to a Firewire hard drive. I do not back up my System and Applications, just files. Consequently, when I recently upgraded my internal hard drive I restored all my data and settings from the original internal hard drive (not the Time Machine).
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I think you have to browse them separately, but you should be able to do so by right-clicking (control+click) on the Time Machine icon in the dock or by holding the option key when clicking the icon in the menu bar.
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First things first the spinning beach ball is usually an indication that Search is going nuts.
Turn off Search entire Library by clicking on the downward pointing arrow to the right of the Magnisying glass and untick Search entire library.
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Did you properly prep the drive first:
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