Replacing Harddrive and Upgrading RAM

Hello,
I am looking to trade in my old 17" Macbook Pro for the new one. With my current computer (Old 17" Macbook Pro) I was able to save money by buying my RAM from a third party provider and installing it myself. With the new 17" Macbook Pro I was wondering if this is possible because it has no battery compartment to get inside the computer.
Also, is it possible to put a new hard drive in it (by myself)? I want to eventually have a solid state drive but I want to wait until they get cheaper and bigger.
Thanks in advance.

Instructions for changing the hard drive in a new 17" MBP are on page 37 of the manual that accompanies the machine:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/MacBook_Pro_17inchEarly2009.pdf

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First, to confirm your HDD died, go into your BIOS menu. There should be a hard drive and memory diagnostics utility. Run the HDD diagnostics utility and see what it reports. More than likely the HDD has crashed and is no longer usable.
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You could go to 250 to 500 GB if you choose. Unfortunately right now, HDD prices are unreasonably high due to the flooding in Thailand where many HDD manufacturing plants are located. Some were damaged heavily, causing HDD prices to triple almost overnight.
This is a drive you can get that I think is better than what you have now: This one is 7,200 RPM. Faster but uses more battery power.
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You can get the 5400 rpm version too...similar. Not as good as the caviar black. This is more along the line of what you would get from HP.
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Read the reviews on both or you are free to get the one from HP.
There are instructions to install the hard drive and memory on your notebook's support and driver page. Click on Manuals on the right side of the page.
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Then you want to look at the maintenance and service guide.
You can upgrade the memory to a maximum of 4 GB using 2 x 2GB of PC2-6400 memory. You can get it from HP or you can get it at the link below. This is the memory I use. As a matter of fact I just ordered this very same memory to install in my sister-in-law's dv6700.
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Now, you can install W7 just fine. I installed W7 Home Premium 64 bit on my dv6810us that has pretty much the same hardware as yours and 4 GB of memory (the same as I posted above).
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If you have the upgrade version, contact HP support and order a set of Vista recovery disks. Install Vista and then uprade to W7 if you have the upgrade version of W7.
You can use the vista drivers from your notebook's support page for any drivers you need that W7 didn't supply.
One thing...DO NOT flash (update) the BIOS when running Windows 7. You can only flash it using windows vista.
Hope this helps. If you have any other questions, please let us know.
Paul

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