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Retrofitting a Blu-ray Drive into My Laptop

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‎09-28-2010 12:43 PM - edited ‎09-28-2010 12:49 PM

I have a HP Pavilion dv7-1451nr  purchased during the Fall of 2009.  It has been updated to Windows 7 Professional.

 

Can I replace the present CD-DVD drive in it with a Blu-ray Drive? 

 

Also, can I retrofit a TV tuner into the same laptop? 

 

Does HP have these available and what drivers need be installed?  Do you have any information on your site that gives more discussion on such a retrofit?

 

Thanks for any information.

 

Ed

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Re: Retrofitting a Blu-ray Drive into My Laptop

‎10-02-2010 09:37 PM

According to your maintenance and service guid there is a specific Blu-Ray ROM available for you laptop HP

 part # 480461-001

 

 Here is you service guide.

 

  http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01918142.pdf

 

As for the TV tuner, there is usually a blank spot in the laptop for this, check the guide out.

 

 

http://h20141.www2.hp.com/Hpparts/Search_Results.aspx?mscssid=FB56945DE6E04FA4BC735DECF33F1F9F&Searc...

 

 

 http://www.getpartsonline.com/480461-001.html

 

 The software is available for both of these. There are no drivers per say.

A word of caution, you may have to do a clean install to W7 to get these things to run properly. I will help you with that if need be. There is a right and wrong way to do a clean install.

 The Blu-ray software may not function properly with an upgrade, HP's Media Smart DVD is very finicky when it comes to W7 upgrades.

 

 

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