My laptop has a 5400 hard drive can i upgrade to a 7200

[mrbori1961]

My laptop has a 160 gb 5400 hard drive can I upgraded to a higher capacity 7200 hard drive

 

[perfectblue]

Yes you can. Any capacity 2.5" drive should fit in.

 

[RetiredChief]

Short answer, most likely. You forgot to include is it PATA (Not sure if available or SATA in which case Yes.

If you are running windows 7 this becomes very easy. Just use Windows 7 back-up (it's in control panel, system and Security) make a image of your C drive onto a Backup USB Hard drive (or to DVDs) then as prompted make a bootable repair Disk. Put new HDD in laptop, run Repair disk and repair from Image. NO Re-install operating system, no re-install of programs - Poof like the majic dragon, every thing is on your new HDD including favorities.

See link for selection: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007605%20600003340%20600003459&IsNodeId=1&name=SATA%203.0Gb%2fs