Upgrading to a larger Harddrive?

I'm trying to upgrade to a larger harddrive for my HP Pavilion dv6448se from an 80gb to a 500gb.
What kind of harddrive do I need, specifically? I bought one from Western Digital and it doesn't have the right connectors.
Can anyone help me?
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The connector bar is on the old drive in the caddy. It is a plastic piece that has female ports that accept the male SATA plugs on one side and then a different connection interface proprietary to HP on the other. Look at a new, bare drive and look at the old HP drive in the caddy. The thing that makes the HP drive different is what has to be removed.
This is what the connector looks like. The bottom part goes over the SATA connectors.

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Hi,
I was wondering if increasing the size of your harddrive is going to speed up your computer?
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Tough question that depends on several factors. First is how full was your old drive, the closer it comes to capacity the slower that makes your computer. As a general rule of thumb OS X should have a minimum of 10% free disk space to operate OK. Next is the RPM speed of the drive drives, you can buy hard disks that spin at 5,400, 7,200 & 10,000 RPM, the faster the RPM the quicker the input/output. Theoretically if you replace a 7,200 RPM drive with a 10,000 RPM drive that will speed up the input / output.
So if you are replacing a drive that is currently filled to 70% capacity that spins at 7,200 RPM with a larger capacity 7,200 RPM drive then no you probably won't notice any difference in performance. However if you are replacing a drive that is at 90% capacity that spins at 7,200 RPM with a higher capacity 10,000 RPM drive then yes you will probably see some performance increase.
Bottom line, not simple question to answer.
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MS-6116 Large Harddrive not supported (latest bios)

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othy

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then ive no idea if you have flashed the bios and it took bar Clear CMOS Guide
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othy

Can't open Office after upgrading to a larger HDD.

I recently upgraded my HDD in my Mac to one twice the size. I used the Disk Recovery tool (command + R) to clone my old HDD with all of the software that was installed on it to my new HDD. Now that everything is copied over I tried to open Office for
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Suggest you post your question in the Office for Mac forum in order to get the quickest response from people familiar with your environment (this forum is for Window's based Outlook).
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Upgrading to a larger hard drive?

Hi everyone,
I'm considering upgrading my MBP hard drive to one that has more space and want to get more info to see how much of a hassle it would or would not be. I bought my MBP last February right at the end of the month when they had that slight upgrade in HD size and speed. It has the 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM and has a 200 GB hard drive.
I would like to upgrade to a 320 GB drive and was wondering if this is something Apple stores did? If not, does anything I do to the memory or hard drive automatically void the extended AppleCare plan that I have?
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And, if I upgrade to a larger hard drive, does that mean I should also upgrade to more RAM? Or is getting a hard drive with a higher number of rpm sufficient?
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You will find this link useful in regards to the question on warranty after upgrading the drive. Both answers over there are in my experience spot on.
So given that you will need to either use a third party service like TechRestore or do the upgrade yourself. (I recently did it myself and so have no experience with 3rd parties.)
To your other questions - Apple does not make their own hard drives, they use drives from other manufacturers. So you need to buy a reputable brand 2.5" SATA disk - Seagate, Western Digital, Fujitsu are the ones recommended most often.
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P7N Diamond (Large harddrives)

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Larger Harddrive for video editing on a MacBook Pro

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Upgrade to a larger Hard Drive

Hi there,
I’ve been struggling for days now to clone my old Hard Drive onto a new, larger unit. I have EaseUs and Backup and Partition Master as well as Seagate DiscWizard software in the hope that something would finally work.
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Hi MyGoodness,
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