HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook
Intel(R) Core (TM) i3 CPU M330 2.13GHZ
4 GB Ram
64=bit Operating System.
Windows 7 Home Premium

My Hard Drive Is Failing I Need A Replacement But I Am Not Sure What The Actual Size I Would Really Need
Hp Won't Answer My Question Unless I Pay Them $20 For One Time Tech Support

I Want To Try To Repair It Myself, Last Time I Took A Laptop To The Computer Repair Place He Didn't Know Anything About Factory Images or How to Use Them.
 So I'm Not Really Going To Trust Him With This.
I know it's Size Is In Inch's But I'm Not Really Sure
I'm Sorry I'm New At This Any Help Would Def Be More Than Welcomed
Thank you1.  What MAKES you think hard drive is failing?
2.  Is computer past warranty?
3.  There is no listing for HP Pavilion dv6; http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/siteHome?cc=us&lc=enwhen i boot it up it says Hard Drive intimate failure and ASKS me to back up everything.
it was fine last night but i went to boot it up today and it kept restarting i did system repair a few times it finally did start but started saying that.
the warranty has expired hp wont even answer my question about hard drive size
so i searched the net for the hard drive intimate failure to FIGURE out what it is.

it was fine last night  i shut it down like normal. That's the built-in hard drive S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, it's definitely going bad & can fail at any time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.
It's a 2.5" notebook drive, probably SATA interface, but let's be sure:
There is no listing for HP Pavilion dv6; http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/siteHome?cc=us&lc=en
the laptop is a pavillion dv6-2150us model cant seem to find it on that site thoa posted my serial and my product comes up unknown for some reasonhttp://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?product=4121143&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&lang=en&cc=us

ok here is the link for what it came up with not sure if this helps at allHP Pavilion dv6-2150us Entertainment Notebook PC Product Specifications
All it says about HD is:  Hard Drive   320GB (7200RPM)

Maintenance and Service Guide
See p. 1-2, 4-14oh ok thank you so much for helping me hopefully i can get this fixed ASAP You will need the Recovery CD's that came with it.  If you can backup all your important stuff, & then install Macrium Reflect to create an image of the entire hard drive, that will be a lot easier than starting from scratch with the Recovery CD's.
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp