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This video tutorial explains how you can upgrade and speed up your HP Pavilion zd7000 laptop by installing more memory and a faster hard drive. You can use this tutorial for the entire line of zd7000 series laptops.
This upgrade is all about getting more performance out of your existing laptop. Going from a 4,200 rpm to a 7,200 rpm HDD will result in a tremendous increase in disk access. Windows will load faster, and programs will open quicker. Also, upgrading from 512MB of memory to 2GBs will greatly help when using memory hungry programs. Watch the Video to find out more…
For this upgrade you can use any 60GB, 80GB, 100GB or 120GB IDE (not SATA) hard drive.
You should use PC2700 DDR333 memory modules and install up to 1GB memory module into each slot. This laptop has 2 memory slots available for upgrades, so you can install 2GB total.
You can install different size memory modules into the slots just make sure both modules are the same type (PC2700 DDR333).
For example, you can install 512MB PC2700 memory module into the slot 1 and 1GB PC2700 memory module into the slot 2. In this scenario the laptop will see 1.5GB total.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:39 am
An online article from this site….
Says going from a 4,200 rpm to a 7,200 rpm HDD is possible for zd7000 series laptops. Yet I can find no 7200rpm IDE hard drives available on the internet. Is such a critter available to your knowledge and would it be compatible with my HP zd7058cl model laptop?
April 15th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
HP chat help told me that I must use a IDE 4200rpm drive no bigger than 100GB. So who is correct.
I would Like to go 120GB at the 7200rpm, but want to have a compatible system. I have a zd7058cl pavilion laptop. If the 7200 x 120gb will work who manufactures such a beast?