Upgrading g60 hard disk

My hard disk got corrupted and since im going to replace it,i wanted to upgrade it from 320gb to 500gb. I have an hp g60 laptop,an also can i just start from scratch reinstalling Windows Vista since the old hard disk is broken,but i have my product key no. If so can give me an advice on what to buy? I really want to fix this laptop bcoz this is the last gift my mom gave to me before she past away,i really do appreciate all the help i can get thanks

Sorry for the loss. Where are you located (country)? Do you have some means of installing Windows Vista? Did you perhaps create the HP recovery disks for the laptop? Yes if you can get a copy of OEM Windows Vista of the same type as your license Code you can reinstall with that Code but Vista media is getting hard to find. You can install any 2.5 inch wide and 9.5 mm thick SATA laptop hard drive. We can help you find a good 500 gig model at a fair price once we know the place it has to be shipped.

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hi LV7,
Thanks for Posting!
These are the 1T HDD that can be preloaded with a V480
These can be found on your system's Maintenance Manual
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=UM013171
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Delay Upgrading That Hard Disk!

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Like many old MacBook users right about now, we're all thinking about upgrading our 60 or 80 GB OEM hard drives. Well, I went and did it and I have a few questions after-the-fact, not to mention documenting my experience.
First I chose the Seagate Momentus 160GB 7200.2 (ST9160823ASG). This replaces the OEM Seagate Momentus 80GB 5400.2 (ST98823AS). The reason for this is simple ... the OEM drive worked flawlessly and I was willing to spend a little extra to ensure continued performance. I also chose to bundle it with a CMS USB 2.0 external enclosure data transfer kit to re-use my old drive.
My first surprise was that the CMS auto-transfer software was Windows only, despite the fact they make a Macintosh back-up product. The second surprise was that there was no Apple auto-transfer options. I literally spent an hour searching the Apple website and built-in help and tutorials to find a way to do this. Thanks to all on this discussion website as I ended up choosing a third party "clone" software to copy my old drive.
Which brings me to my first question. Every-time I tried to use Disk Utility to make a disk image of my old disk, I got the response that the disk image failed because resources were in use. Is that normal? Is there a way to make a back-up disk image using included Apple disk utilities? If not, then Apple NEEDS to spell it out, rather than a one line blurb in the disk install manual they publish that says basically: first back up your data. Thanks Apple, big help.
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The process of installing the drive was simple. Thank you Apple (seriously). The new drive booted right up and the system is as zippy as ever ... but you knew it was coming:
The new 7200 rpm drive ran smoothly and absolutely silently in the external enclosure when I was backing up the old HD. Once installed, I immediately noticed a new vibration. Nothing huge, but it's there when now it wasn't on the OEM drive. The whole MacBook vibrates, stem to stern. The drive also seems hotter under my palm. Seeing all manor of these "VIBRATION" issues on other posts, I would suggest that anyone upgrading to a new drive, install the HD first to ***** the level of vibration before going to the lengthy duplicating process. It also seems to spin constantly, which the 5400 may well have done too but was otherwise unnoticeable.
My question here is, since these drives are virtually identical, does the 7200 rpm cause the added vibration & heat not present on the 5400, or could I have less-than-optimal drive which might be improved with a different drive? Also, the last time I had a high vibration drive on my PowerBook G3 it continued to get worse over the course of a year and Apple finally replaced it under Apple Care.
All-in-all it was a simple and relatively straightforward process once I found all the pieces, that is and Apple did not make it easy. I chewed up a lot of time I did not have looking for instructions. I've been using Macs since the original Macintosh in 1984. Ah I long for the days when I could just open a disk, insert another, select all and drag the contents to a new disk and voila! An exact copy of the original. Apple finally gets an A+ for RAM & Drive upgrade accessibility. But they get an F for making the data migration process as complicated as possible, particularly for something as important as our data. I'm sure their strategy is for everyone to take their computers to the Apple Store for upgrades and anyone else should already know how to do it. Well, I would suggest that most of us fall somewhere in the middle. We can put the new drive in and backup our data, but like making a good cake, we need the recipe.

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Recommended Hard Disk Upgrade for 4,1 (Early 2008) Macbook?

I've read so many disaster stories out there (primarily from Amazon.com reviews) about upgrading mac Hard Disks, I wanted to get a real recommendation.
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With a 7200rpm drive you might notice a slight decrease in battery time. I've put one in a Early 2006 Model 1,1 for my niece and she's had no problems with it.
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