replacement hard drive type for a laptop model 15-AF131DX

[zpalffy]

can anyone tell me the type of hard drive I need to to repalce the one in my HP laptop model 15-AF131DX

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

According to specs it came with a 500 gig 5400 rpm SATA laptop hard drive. 

Service Manual:

Manual

Pages 37-41 show how to do the replacement. 

Any 2.5 inch wide and 7 mm or 9.5 mm thick hard drive or even sold state drive will work.

This would be an inexpensive duplicate replacement:

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-2-5-Inch-Internal-ST500LM030/dp/B01M0AAA6X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UT...

Bigger and faster:

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Performance-Mobile-Hard-Drive/dp/B01DOL05OC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511...

Solid state:

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E500B-AM/dp/B00OBRE5UE/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronic...

Post back with any more questions. We can also help with software migration/reinstall.

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[zpalffy]

OK I bought the hard drive as recommended in this forum and installed it  I only had a windows 7 cd to install an operating system so I installed it. Now the problem is that I do not have any device drivers for this laptop using windows 7 that means no internet connection. I am not sure what to do at this point. The laptop came with windows 10 but not with a cd or anything. 

I downloaded a windows 10 version on to a thumb drive and made it bootable and change the bios to boot from the usb drive it started to install but I guess since it saw windows 7 it would not install over top of it

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

thank you 

[Huffer]

Which OS do you want to have? Windows 10 should have no problem installing onto a drive that had Windows 7. Where is it stopping and with what error message?