[AT] OT - laptop hard drive

Chuck Saunders gooberdog at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 08:43:45 PST 2015


It should be at most 2 screws and the disk slides out. 7200 will give a
little faster response time to disk IO. Replace with a SATA drive. After
that it's just like desktops
Chuck Saunders
KCMO

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Mike <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote:

> Hi all, I have a Dell laptop that is about 8 years old running windows
> 7. I have a hunch that the hard drive may be on it's way out, it takes
> forever to boot, it freezes for no reason, and now I'm getting random
> blue screens that pop up out of no where. I've run every malware and
> antivirus I have and everything is clean. I've installed hard drives in
> desktops before, but never a laptop. How hard is it, and what type
> should I be looking for? Any advantage going with 7200 rpm vs 5400 rpm.
> Right now the computer has a 500GB SATA Samsung hard drive; apparently
> Samsung was bought out by Seagate.  Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Mike M
>
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