Dv9008nr what is the largest internal hard drive this will support? Including drive bay two.

[Damon13pierson]

I have an Hp pavillion laptop model Dv9008nr I purchase a new seagate 500gb sata drive  model 2.5 momentus.  I installed the drive in scond hard drive bay but the computer will not recognize and won't boot to windows.  so i used Acronis to clone an image of original drive with bootable operating systems then clone it to the 500gb Seagate drive  i reinstalled to drive bay 1 but it still will not boot. I vontacted HP support tier1 tier2 they say this computer will only support a max of 200gb drive or 100gb in each bay.  I find that hard to believe when i search the net and see the same model with 250gb drives and 320gb can anyone explain or help Thanks.

[Huffer]

For some reason nobody has adequately explained the dv9000s and other similar models seem to have trouble with the Seagate 500 gig laptop SATA drives. They should not since there is no BIOS size limit for SATA drives. Nobody has reported issues with 320 gig drives, however so I would say you are safe to put in a pair of 320s.

[Damon13pierson]

I tried a Western digital 320gb drive and it to will not work the computer freezes at HP screen before windows boot.  If I remove this secondary drive computer boots fine.  I install second drive again and reboot it freezes.  i can see second drive is turning and shows up at F10 setup screen as assigned drive (1) the primary drive with os shows assigned as (0).  I can also see drive listed in preboot setup when i push esc to change boot order.  I have talked with HP no help.  I have reinstalled BIOS vers. F.3D 11/22/2007 I believe this to be the newest version.  Anyone please help I want to use my secondary drive.

[Damon13pierson · Accepted solution]

I just want to let everyone know I figured out how to make this work. NO THANKS TO HP CUSTOMER SUPPORT TIER1, TIER2, or CHAT.  They all told me that this was a Motherboard issue and that the BIOS and software was not the problem.  They stated that this DV9000 series Motherboard only can support a total of 200gb total drive space. That is 100gb in drive bay 1 and 100gb in drive bay2, or 120gb in bay1 and 80gb in bay 2.  I found this hard to believe. But they even sent me the manual and showed me on page 123 that is all that is supported.  They suggest buying a new computer or use external drive.

HERE IS THE SOLUTION>  I purchased Acronis True Image 2009.  I then remembered that a friend had stated that I would have to have the larger drive in drive bay 1 and the same size or smaller drive in drive bay 2.  So I took the original 100gb drive out of drive bay 1 and installed in bay 2. I then installed a new 320gb Western Digital drive in bay1.  I rebooted the computer using the Acronis boot disk I had made.  I then used Acronis to make a Clone disk image of my original 100gb drive with OS to the new 320gb drive in bay 1.  After the clone was complete I took out boot disk and restatred windows and wow it worked fine.  I now have primary 320gb drive with complete image in drive1 and old 100gb in drive 2.  That is a total of 420gb on the Motherboard that supposedly does not support it.  I then decided to try this again so I removed the original 100gb drive and then moved the bootable 320gb clone to drive bay 2.  I then installed a new 500gb Seagate Maximus drive into dirve bay 1. I then booted with the Acronis boot idisk and Cloned the 320gb disk in drive bay 2 to the new 500gb drive in bay 1.  I reboot after taking out Acronis boot disk and again I am now in windows with a 500gb primary drive with OS and all programs as well as 320gb drive in bay 2.  Both show up in My computer as well as in Manage and Disk Management. I then reformat the 320gb drive to make more storage room.  You can do the same or set it up as raid drive.  I hope this helps eveyone, because now I have 820gb of Hard disk space internally despite all the wrong info I received from HP.  I wil gladly help anyone through the steps if needed.  Thanks for all the support out there!!!

[Huffer]

I am glad it worked for you but I do not think your system supports a RAID array of the two hard drives.

[MichaelBehrens]

Thx Damon,

next days i will try to upgrade my dv9000/dv9276ea.

I think w/o your help i never would´ve tried to plug in the new, bigger HDD in der first slot - instead of using it as storage upgrade in the 2nd slot...

[Okin]

Damon13pierson,

I too have a dv9009nr which came with two 80 gb hard drives installed and would like to upgrade to at least 320 gb on one of them.  I have been told by some "techies" that the dv 9000 will not accept anything bigger than 250 gb.  Seems each has go his or her own size capacity, huh?  Anyway, I will try to follow your advice and start with the 320 gb in bay #1 and use Norton Ghost to place an image on it before commencing operation.  Do you know if there is any issue with going to a 7200 rpm drive vs. the standard 5400 rpm?  Which did you use?  Also do you find much difference between the Seagate and your WD drive?  Thanks for your input and keep on truckin'...Thanks!

-okinswerdna

[Damon13pierson]

I did not have an issue switching to 7200rpm drive. No real difference between WD or seagate it was just what was on sale.  However I have WD should work better.