Hard Drive Replacement

[Everett Henderson]

I own a pavilion 6640C desktop and the hard drive needs to be replaced. It would be much quicker and cheaper if I could buy a hard drive locally instead of through HP. I know the basic specs of the drive I need and I want to know if it is advisable to replace the drive with a non-HP model.

[John Bolene · Accepted solution]

If the machine is out of warranty, go right ahead.

Otherwise, if you wanted the drive replaced under warranty, HP or a warranty repair place must do it.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Everett,

Like John has advised, if the system is out of warranty, go ahead and replace the drive with a third party one. you should not be having any problem.

Hope this helps.

Regds.

[harry d brown jr]

I'd replace it, especially because it isn't covered.

HP doesn't make disk drives anyways, so have at it!


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harry

[paul courry]

If the drive still runs be sure to ghost it or make rescue disks. This will allow you to reload the drive without a lot of heartache.