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Advice for a Novice Replacing Laptop Hard Drive?

Posted by Cliff on from the save-money-by-doing-it-yourself dept.

frugalRepairs asks: "The hard disk in my Sharp PC-MV12W laptop recently died. It gave me warning and I had everything backed up. It was out of warranty and the repair folks want an arm and a leg to fix it. I would like to replace the hard drive myself but I've never done anything like this before. It seems to me that I would just extract the old hard drive, note the physical measurements, purchase new hard drive, and install it. However, I'm expecting Mr. Murphy to visit me as soon as I open the case and would like some advice from Slashdot experts. Do I need special tools? Does the BIOS have special needs? Are all 2.5" laptop drives created equal?"

2 of 100 comments (clear)

  1. You are gay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is officially the gayest question. are you 12 years old or something? why don't you research it the issue on the internet, or experiment. if you can figure out enough to ask slashdot, you can figure out enough to do this inane task on your own. you little bitch.

  2. Re:You are gay -- I wholeheartedly agree by denthijs · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OT, i know, but DAMN, wtf?
    who's in charge here, .. for the past year we've seen the quality of /. articles deteriorate and deteriorate, .. but this without a doubt tops 'm off...
    a _frontpage_ thread that isjust one big rtfm flame waiting to happen
    anyhoo,.. /me is packing my bags and upping. c'yall on http://www.kuro5hin.org/, http://www.arstechnica.com/ and / or http://www.theregister.co.uk/ hopefully the newsvalue of /. rises above the current http://www.fark.com/ in a year or so,...
    in other words;
    screw you guys, .. I'm going home