Also you want to know if it is an IDE drive or a SATA. It's most likely
a 2.5 inch drive.
Usually these are no hassle to replace. First time round put the screws
on the table exactly in the place of where you took them from.
Some of these laptops have different length screws. And if you put the
long screw in where a short one should have gone, then you find yourself
screwing through the motherboard!
Not good for warranty repairs...
If you are not confident then take it to a computer shop.
Ben
Ken Wilson wrote:
Michael Lake wrote:
William Bennett wrote:
I have the opportunity to a) upgrade to Fedora 5 and b) buy a Seagate
160MB internal hard drive, hopefully to facilitate the Fedora.
It's a Fujitsu S Series Lifebook.
I've not done this before. Would the new hard drive "fit" the laptop
and
would it give the BIOS a hard time?
Make sure you can physically do an install of the drive at home. Do
you have the tools to undo little screws with special heads, what
other parts of the laptop need to be disassembled to install the hard
drive etc.
When the screen on my Ti PowerBook broke I found a site on the web
that listed all the special tools I would need like star screwdrivers
and the actual procedure and I could see that it wasn't going to be
easy at all. I would have had to disassemble the entire laptop to get
a new screen installed.
Mike
Hard drives usually are not so bad, but finding a illustrated howto is
good for finding out about the hidden screw there usually is
Ken
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