Replacing pavillion p7-1417c hdd with larger capacity

I want to upgrade to a larger capacity hdd and can't find information about compatability of my motherboard (MSI MS-7778, chipset - AMD A75 FCH) with hdd's. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Hi,
You certainly could use a SATA III 3TB hard drive as a data only drive. Seagate markets some hybrid hard drives that would be a lot faster than the typical hard drive. Your PC has an older HP Recovery Manager so it might not be able to work with advanced format hard drive that are over 2TB as compared to the newer HP PC models.
If you have further questions about hard drive upgrades then contact HP Support.
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No such thing as a "PC hard drive". Im sure it comes formatted in MSDOS or otherwise, ...doesnt mean anything.
Ive got a 100 drives laying around here, most came formatted in DOS or Exfat or NTFS , just formatted all of them for Mac.
format the HD as Mac OSX extended journaled ,....takes 5 seconds.
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5. open bottom (see videos on ifixit or youtube on same) and remove old, install new.
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http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Replacing+MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Unibody+Mid+2012+Hard+ Drive/10378/1
Done
(FIRST TIME after installing, boot will be SLOW,...normal and ignore that).
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Im wondering what interface works?
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I have a Qosmio X500-10W with two HDD Toshiba MK5055GSX 500GB 5400RPM 8MB ??SATA II but is one of hs so I wonder if I can be replaced by a more powerful style HDD 750GB 7200tr / min 16MB Toshiba course?
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Your question is a little bit hard to understand but I think you want to replace the HDD with another (faster) model, right?
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Hi,
currently I own a MacBook Pro with a 300GiB HDD. Because of all the iTunes stuff, which I want to leave where it is, the hard drive is getting fuller. I only have round about 40GiB left on my device.
I studied computer science and I already gave 8GB og memory to my computer, so I know what I am doing and I want to replace my hdd with an 400GiB ssd right now.
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