Techy advice sought
My laptop is dying on it's arse and I believe the main culprit is the hard drive, the poor luv is only 80gb.
I'd like to replace it with a lovely old 320gb jobby, but I have no idea where to start when it comes to doing it (don't really have the cash to buy the drive AND hire a man with pens).
I have the Windows install (recovery?) disc that came with the lappy, as well as the driver discs.
I sit a case of just tearing out the old drive, chucking the new one in and installing everything?
Or will I have to transfer stuff to the new drive first, using a USB cradle or sumfink like that?
Will a standard 2.5" SATA drive do? It's esentially an ASUS but I got it from Evesham about 2&1/2 years ago (1.8g Dual Core, 1gb RAM, 256mb dedicated graphics).
Posted By: HairyBobbingManAss on November 26th 2008 at 17:23:14
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- Techy advice sought (General Chat) - HairyBobbingManAss, Nov 26, 17:23:14
- Do you have USB2 and/or Firewire ports? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 26, 17:42:05
- ta for earlier solution, much appreciated (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 26, 18:38:27
- Yeah? Good! (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 26, 19:19:51
- worked a treat ta (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 26, 19:46:17
- Yeah? Good! (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 26, 19:19:51
- Both I think, and I already have a large external drive for the PS3 (General Chat) - HairyBobbingManAss, Nov 26, 17:49:12
- I have two LaCie external drives (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 26, 18:09:10
- Mind you, why do you think your HD is the problem? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 26, 18:11:29
- well, It's currently got 70gb filled out of 80, but I've cleared out all the pics and vids (General Chat) - HairyBobbingManAss, Nov 26, 18:19:23
- Rule of thumb is to keep 10% free (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 26, 19:18:23
- 10 GB of free space is more than enough not to affect the performance (General Chat) - Ben, Nov 26, 18:36:31
- well, It's currently got 70gb filled out of 80, but I've cleared out all the pics and vids (General Chat) - HairyBobbingManAss, Nov 26, 18:19:23
- Mind you, why do you think your HD is the problem? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 26, 18:11:29
- I have two LaCie external drives (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 26, 18:09:10
- ta for earlier solution, much appreciated (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 26, 18:38:27
- Do you have USB2 and/or Firewire ports? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 26, 17:42:05
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