Right, I bought an HP Pavilion p6565uk from morgan computers for a reasonable price. They listed it as 'new', but on the box it came in it looked like it was an HP Gold renew.
Anyway, no Windows 7 disc came with it. I wasn't particularly surprised, as the laptop (Acer laptop from a 3rd party online retailer) my mother bought ages ago didn't come with a Vista disc, so I guessed this was par-for-the-course.
The 1TB internal HDD does have a 11.7GB HP Recovery partition (with 1.43GB free), visibly containing a tiny 'Recovery File Folder', and I'm fairly sure I've seen recovery options in the BIOS.
(the background stuff, reading it isn't crucial)
I am planning on buying a 2TB 7200RPM SATA WD Caviar Black (once I have the money
after all these years of cheap IDE drives, the prices of SATA drives came as a shock to me ) and I guess the best way for me to utilise it would be to use that as a secondary HDD for 'data' (being media, such as iTunes library, Revision3/TWiT podcasts, TV shows etc.), as the Movie and TV folders on my PC at the moment are 206GB (on a 1TB HDD. I currently 'only' have 45GB free space, and the 206GB space taken up would be a lot larger if I actually put my main library of media (for example, 50 or so 720p Diggnation episodes) on the internal HDD.
(end of background stuff)
Anyway, usual background information done...
What if I decide I want to install Windows 7 (Home Premium) onto the 2TB drive instead for the benefit of complaining programs that demand C: (from my experience) such as iTunes and Steam. There is a typical Microsoft/OEM CoA sticker on the side of the computer, but that's about all there is. So, what would I do? Would I somehow be able to install Windows 7 onto the future 2TB drive, or will I be stuck with the OS staying on the 1TB drive?
(also, apologies for the poor thread title, I couldn't really think of how to describe the predicament)
Anyway, no Windows 7 disc came with it. I wasn't particularly surprised, as the laptop (Acer laptop from a 3rd party online retailer) my mother bought ages ago didn't come with a Vista disc, so I guessed this was par-for-the-course.
The 1TB internal HDD does have a 11.7GB HP Recovery partition (with 1.43GB free), visibly containing a tiny 'Recovery File Folder', and I'm fairly sure I've seen recovery options in the BIOS.
(the background stuff, reading it isn't crucial)
I am planning on buying a 2TB 7200RPM SATA WD Caviar Black (once I have the money
after all these years of cheap IDE drives, the prices of SATA drives came as a shock to me ) and I guess the best way for me to utilise it would be to use that as a secondary HDD for 'data' (being media, such as iTunes library, Revision3/TWiT podcasts, TV shows etc.), as the Movie and TV folders on my PC at the moment are 206GB (on a 1TB HDD. I currently 'only' have 45GB free space, and the 206GB space taken up would be a lot larger if I actually put my main library of media (for example, 50 or so 720p Diggnation episodes) on the internal HDD.(end of background stuff)
Anyway, usual background information done...
What if I decide I want to install Windows 7 (Home Premium) onto the 2TB drive instead for the benefit of complaining programs that demand C: (from my experience) such as iTunes and Steam. There is a typical Microsoft/OEM CoA sticker on the side of the computer, but that's about all there is. So, what would I do? Would I somehow be able to install Windows 7 onto the future 2TB drive, or will I be stuck with the OS staying on the 1TB drive?
(also, apologies for the poor thread title, I couldn't really think of how to describe the predicament)
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bitAMD Phenom II X6 1035T @2.6GHz (hexacore) (=1...6GB DDR3-1333 (running at 1066)NVIDIA/MSI GeForce GTX 770 (2GB)
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- HP Pavilion p6565uk
- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II X6 1035T @2.6GHz (hexacore) (=15.6GHz)
- Motherboard
- FOXCONN (2AA9)
- Memory
- 6GB DDR3-1333 (running at 1066)
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA/MSI GeForce GTX 770 (2GB)
- Sound Card
- Realtek HD Audio (with 5.1 surround sound always on)
- Monitor(s) Displays
- HP 2311x (secondary-workspace), Sharp LL-T1620-H (primary)
- Screen Resolution
- 1924x1080
- Hard Drives
- 480GB Crucial M500 SSD
1TB internal WD Caviar Black
3TB Seagate Barracude 7200rpm (for media storage)
4TB Seagate Desktop drive (mirrored backup)
2TB Apple AirPort Time Capsule
1TB Seagate FreeAgent Desk
500GB Seagate External Desktop Drive
- PSU
- XCase Dolphin, 700W
- Case
- Stock HP one that came with it, mid-size ATX
- Cooling
- Stock fans, they're fairly quiet.
- Keyboard
- Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 2000+ HP Media Centre Remote
- Mouse
- Microsoft Wireless Mouse 2000
- Internet Speed
- 20 Mbps down, 50 Mbps up
- Antivirus
- MSE
- Browser
- Chrome Beta
- Other Info
- Also:
- 13" Apple MacBook Air, 2013, i7 @ 1.7GHz, 8GB DDR3, 256GB SSD
- HP Deskjet 3050A
- Two HP ZV5000 laptops (the better of the two recently broke)
- A Compaq Evo D310 (has 2GB RAM and a 2.53GHz P4 but is curiously extremely slow)
- A desk fan - this weather is warm ;)
- A fair few retro consoles
- Too many cables behind the desk, probably a fire hazard.
