Re: Changing hard drives on laptops
From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/31/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:47:47 -0500
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:33:42 +1000, Brian Eable wrote:
>
> I was thinking about how easy or difficult it is to change a hard
> drive on various models of laptops. In some other thread, I said that
> it's pretty hard to change the hard drive on a Sony Z505, and I know
> that it's quite easy to do so on an NEC Versa laptop. And then there's
> that Toshiba I saw with the slide-out hard disk tray, which makes it
> really simple to change the hard disk.
>
> I was reading the "Quick Specs" for a HP nx5000, and it says
> "user-removable hard drives." Has anybody tried removing the hard
> drive on a nx5000?
>
> I'm interested in this because a hard drive upgrade is a good way to
> extend the life of an old laptop; and because if it's really easy to
> swap hard drives, it might allow the machine to be much more
> versatile, with say one disk for your favourite Linux installation,
> and another one with FreeBSD on it or something like that. So if you
> have a laptop and you've taken the hard drive out, please tell me how
> you did it, and how difficult it was.
I've taken a look at my Compaq R3000z which as far as I know is identical
to the HP5000z. The drive is behind a door that is held in place by two
screws. It's fairly easy to replace but I don't think the connector is
designed to repeatedly plug drives in and out. If you want to multiboot
just get a drive that's big enough to hold everything. Laptop drives are
available in sizes upto 100G which is more than enough. I have a 60G drive
that's set up to triple boot, XP and two Linux distributions. 60G is a
little tight because I couldn't get XP to shrink down to less than 12G. I
have 6G for each / partition and the remainder of the drive is used for
/home. If 60G works, then 100G should be great.
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