Upgrading your laptop's hard drive is a great way to get some extra life out of your hard disk, You can read about performing a disk upgrade.... and this are the steps.
- Data backup:
If your hard drive is still working, make sure you make recovery disk or image by using backup or recovery software. If your drive has already failed, hopefully you have your important files saved somewhere as backup.
- Take precautions when touching electronic components.
Improper handling of electronic components can cause damage to computer parts during handling.
- Open the computer case.
- Locate the existing hard drive.
- Remove the hard drive.
- Do this step only if you have a IDE hard drive:
Move the jumpers on the replacement drive to match the settings of the original. Your choices will be Master, Slave or Cable Select. SATA drives do not need to set jumpers. Once you have removed the original hard drive, look at the position of the jumpers on the drive itself. If you cannot see them, most drives will have a diagram on the hard drive's label illustrating the location of the jumpers. The jumper setting will either set the drive as Master, Slave or Cable Select. You should match the settings of the replacement drive to that of the original.
- Install the hard drive by sliding the drive into position:
This will be the same position as the original drive. Carefully screw the drive in and reconnect the data and power cables.
- If you are replacing your primary hard drive, you will either need to reinstall your software or use recovery disks.
Installing an operating system like Windows, Mac OS or Linux may be needed if you do not a recovery image or disk. If you are replacing a secondary drive, you might need to reload any software that was installed on the drive or copy back data files from a back up source.
- Obtain a new hard drive:
Make sure you have the right type of hard drive for your computer depends on motherboard capability and physical size.
You will need to check what your motherboard supports to make sure you have the correct replacement drives.
In physical sizes. Hard drives may either come in a 2.5 inch or a 3.5 inch form factor now. 2.5 inch drives were mainly used in laptops while the 3.5 inch drives were used in desktops Some computer case manufacturers are including 2.5 inch hard drive cages in some of their newer designs.
be careful ensuring that If you are planning to replace a 3.5 inch drive with a 2.5 drive, make sure your computer case has support for it, or you may need to purchase an adapter kit. (note this step perform it after first step then continue with step 2, 3, 4....
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