Unplug from power and remove battery. Have the right size screw driver for the door on the underside of the case. If it's some what like my Dell Inspirion it has a IDE 2.5" hard disk, it may have a caddy or black metal sticker on one side of it. A while back I replaced the 20 GB with a 60 GB, but right now I'm tinkering with my old P2 laptops while I scan other peoples' desktops.
Dell has your model's manual on the Web to help visualize it better, too.
Joan in Reno
--- On Tue, 9/27/11, fggybttm <fggybttm@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: fggybttm <fggybttm@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Simply Computers] Uncooperative Hard drive; was Blue Screen thread.
To: simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 7:37 PM
My heart sank, when I finally tried to remove my hard drive and couldn't!!
Earlier, in the spring, I'd had no trouble at all, when trying to decide whether or not to install a new fan my self or paying someone else to do so.
Since then, however, following my major mess re 'inaccessible' documents, I'd panicked and had a tech do a reinstall. He's not returned any messages, so I don't if there'd been some kind of glitch.
Though I'd provided my Dell / Windows XP Home disks, he'd installed XP Pro. I'd had a jumpy cursor ever since, but eventually someone suggested that may have been due to a 'driver' issue.
In the meantime, I'd downloaded / uninstalled every virus,etc, program I could find to try to get rid of the jumpy cursor - Norton being the one that seems to have caused the blue screen
Anyway, right now, my ?is 'how rough can I be' in trying to remove the hard drive so as to place it in an adapter? I have a Dell Inspiron B130 laptop.
Any advice or assistance happily accepted.
FB
from the local library ;-(
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