Like this?drober23 wrote: Open the old laptop up (lottalittlescrews) and keep going until you can get the hard drive from it. If you are extra nervous, you can take it to a place like Best Buy and have the guys there confirm that is is indeed a SATA drive.
I have only an IDE external hard drive bay with me. Will pick up a SATA somewhere around here.
I am blown away that this Pavilion M7 has a 9 hour battery. For the past six years, I have only been able to enjoy approximately 20 minutes of battery power.
Colin