Satellite P300-20H - HHD upgrade to 1 TByte

Dear All,
I would like to upgrade my internal hard drive from 250 Gbyte to 1 Tbyte.
The 1 Terabyte hard drive have the following specifications:
Capacity - 1 TB
Interface type - Serial ATA-300
Data transfer rate - 300 MBps
Spindle speed - 5,400 rpm
Buffer size - 8 MB
Model is: Toshiba MQ01ABD100 1TB SATA 3GB/s 5400RPM 2.5 Inch 9.5mm Internal Hard Drive
Laptop - Before upgrading, what are the considerations do I have to make?
(1) BIOS changes required? After upgrading
(2) Current hard drive contents
(3) Boot Disk
(4) How do I copy the orginal and format the new hard drive with the licensed operating system VIsta Home Premium edition 32 bit onto my new hard drive.
(5) Installing new hard drive once points 1 and 4 have been taken into account and acted on.
Please advise.
K regards
Reynold

Hello Reynold
Satellite P300 is well known to me and I had it long time ago. At this time I used it with original HDD and 1TB HDD was not available on the market. On my P300 I had possibility to use second HDD so I was happy with two HDDs inside. I used second HDD for data back-up only.
Has your P300 connector for second HDD?
I cannot say for sure but I think such upgrade should not be problematic and new HDD will be recognized properly.
Here is my answer to your questions:
> (1) BIOS changes required? After upgrading
I think Toshiba doesn't offer some newer BIOS update for this old machine so, in my opinion, BIOS update is completely irrelevant and will not change anything.
> (2) Current hard drive contents
After removing this original HDD you can use it as second HDD (if possible) or as external HDD for data back-up. What you will do with the content is your decision.
> (3) Boot Disk
I don't know what do you think with boot disk but before you start to change anything create original recovery Vista installation discs. These recovery discs you can use to install original Vista version on new HDD.
Have you already created such recovery discs?
One more thing: at this time 1TB HDD was not available on the market and I really don't know how recovery image installation will work on such HDD. I hope without problems.
> (4) How do I copy the orginal and format the new hard drive with the licensed operating system VIsta Home Premium edition 32 bit onto my new hard drive.
As I already wrote you have option to create recovery disc and use them for clean Vista installation on new HDD. Using this discs you will have machine with factory settings again.
> (5) Installing new hard drive once points 1 and 4 have been taken into account and acted on.
Unfortunately I don't understand what do you mean exactly.
Please note: when you use recovery discs you will have the same situation as you had on first start after purchase. With other words, you must install all favourite applications additionally.
There is also possibility to create recovery image of your actual OS and actual configuration but for doing this you need some third part applications like Acronis true image.

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