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The 128 gig 2.5 inch SSD was just the biggest HP offered to sell you from the factory. If your laptop already has a 2.5 inch SATA drive (some of them operate entirely off small mSATA mSSD drives) then you can replace it with a 2.5 inch SATA SSD of any size on the market. You will not have to adjust anything in the BIOS. Your best upgrade path is to clone the existing drive to the SSD. This should be easy since they will be very close to the same size. You will need a usb to SATA adapter but you will likely want to get one ayway to keep using the original HDD as external storage.
I use Acronis 2014 Home Edition but there are several other cloning solutions out there, some of them open source (free). Cloning Windows 7 across 2 hard drives of the same size is about the easiest clone you will find.
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The 128 gig 2.5 inch SSD was just the biggest HP offered to sell you from the factory. If your laptop already has a 2.5 inch SATA drive (some of them operate entirely off small mSATA mSSD drives) then you can replace it with a 2.5 inch SATA SSD of any size on the market. You will not have to adjust anything in the BIOS. Your best upgrade path is to clone the existing drive to the SSD. This should be easy since they will be very close to the same size. You will need a usb to SATA adapter but you will likely want to get one ayway to keep using the original HDD as external storage.
I use Acronis 2014 Home Edition but there are several other cloning solutions out there, some of them open source (free). Cloning Windows 7 across 2 hard drives of the same size is about the easiest clone you will find.
Post back if you need more help. Here is the Service Manual:
If this is "the Answer" please click "Accept as Solution" to help others find it.
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