Laptop: Hard Disk Upgrade

The results are somewhat distorted however since it sounds like you have reinstalled everything from scratch, though I am glad you are happy and the increased speed is clear to see. However you did not tell us the status of your original 100GB drive? Was it full, fragmented, full of bloatware etc? Had you done a direct clone of it onto your new faster 320GB drive you might not have seen the new speeds you get? So it is good you have started from fresh with a new install of everything it seems, something most of us have no time to do.

Had you reinstalled everything on your old 100GB drive, that might have increased performance also, though I wouldn't waste time doing that now we you have the newer drive.

And thanks for sharing kindly where you able to buy this hard drive in Bangkok like some others are willing to do;-)

Hi,

I purchased the drive at Hardware House, Central Pinklao, for 3100 baht.

My original hard disk (100 GB) has Windows XP SP2 on it, was fully defragmented (I do this about once a month) and I had no problems with it.

It had about 30 GB free when I removed it. I did not do a direct clone, but a fresh install.

The O/S install took about 20 minutes. Then, adding in the time for installing Acer drivers, my old software programs, etc., it took about 1 day to install everything. I had fully prepared and planned this upgrade for about 1 month, making sure I had everything before attempting the upgrade.

Actually, it took less time than I thought mainly because the new drive is fast.

Hope this helps answer some of your questions.

Gary