My Dell Latitude d830 shipped with an 80GB, 7200 RPM 2.5″ SATA HDD, but when I decided to dual-boot Solaris and Linux, I found I needed more drive capacity. I replaced it with a 160GB, 7200 RPM 2.5″ SATA drive, and photographed the process. (Apologies for less-than-stellar pictures, I’m working on my photography skillz.)
First, flip the laptop over. The harddrive is on the lower right-hand side.
There are three screws that need to be removed, and then you can slide the drive out.
After the drive has been pulled, the mounting bracket can be removed by loosening the screws on the sides.
This is the drive I replaced the stock one with, though I have no particular reason to recommend it.
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do you have any idea after i replace my harddrive how i go about installing all my drivers and utilities,,in what order they go in,,,as i have an old windows xp dell inspiron and these things have to be installed in a special order . that is why i have to install a new one,,,i didnt install them in order before and the hard drive started screwing up…or would you know where i would go to find this out….thanks for your help
i also have an hp pavilion dv 6000 that has a black screen,,,it happened right in the middle of using it,,,and now all the lights blink on and off,,,it also is windows xp but only 2 and half years old…do you have any ideas what the cause might be…i have hooked it up to a different monitor and it still is black and nothing works….help ….thanks
Hi Dottie,
Well, you can either use the install disc that shipped with the system, or if you lost that, you can go to the product page of the company website on another computer, and get the drivers/utilities from there. Dell, for example, will let you download all the driver particular to the computer model you have. Check out their support site.