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Replacing The Hard Drives In My Laptop

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how to do it:

1. turn off the laptop, disconnect power and remove the battery.

2. place upside down on a clean work area. unscrew bottom door and remove, keep track of screws if they are not attatched to the bottom door.

3. unscrew both hard drive caddies and remove them by sliding the drives out of their connectors

4. unscrew the hard drives from the caddy.

5. install your boot drive(which should be the SSD) where your current drive is if you only have one.(unnecessary, but should mean that you have your SSD in slot 0, which still really doesn't matter but I like consistency)

6. install your secondary drive in the other caddy. you might have to use different screw holes on the side of the caddy because it is an identical caddy being installed from the opposite orientation.

7. put the caddies with their drives back in place, putting the main boot drive back where your original hard drive was. screw your caddies in, screw the door back on overtop.

8. install your battery, connect power and install windows feeling good about yourself.

 

one last note. if it is cold or dry where you are, you should technically wear an anti static wrist strap, but if you sit next to something large and metal, touching that to dissapate any charge before and periodically while you work will suffice.

I personally work under a large brass chandelier that is grounded, so that is my surrogate for a proper anti static wrist strap.

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Hey, I am planning on upgrading the HDD hard drives in my laptop. I have never replaced hardware on a computer before so I am looking to you guys for help. I have the ASUS G750JW laptop and I am planning on replacing the two HDD drives with these two drives:

 

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236561                (for the OS and my more used files)

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236496                (for games and whatnot)

 

I had these recommended from a friend but I wanted to make sure that they will be compatible with my laptop. Also I would like to know how I should go about installing the drivers. I am aware that some things will automatically install drivers when the computer boots up but I am unsure of hard drives. I should also mention that I will be booting my computer from USB since I don't want to save anything on the drives other than the files that I'll be backing up to an external hard drive.

 

Thanks for the help, I appreciate it!

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grab one of these for boot. it's small but boot and your main programs will fit with no problem and it's worlds faster.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147247&cm_re=840_evo-_-20-147-247-_-Product

I recommend it because I had a 120gb model in my asus laptop(installed the day I got it) until I upgraded that drive to a 250gb as I didn't have the luxury of a second hard drive for games.

one of those and the 1tb WD blue will definitely be compatible. you could install the SSD in the second bay on the laptop first and clone using Samsung's data migration software, which is a great piece of software, but that would only work if you have less than 120gb of stuff on your current hard drive.

the more involved and thorough method is installing windows onto the 120gb drive. it's how I would do it(I have done it on a G73SW with a the same SSD, similar layout on the laptop)

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how to do it:

1. turn off the laptop, disconnect power and remove the battery.

2. place upside down on a clean work area. unscrew bottom door and remove, keep track of screws if they are not attatched to the bottom door.

3. unscrew both hard drive caddies and remove them by sliding the drives out of their connectors

4. unscrew the hard drives from the caddy.

5. install your boot drive(which should be the SSD) where your current drive is if you only have one.(unnecessary, but should mean that you have your SSD in slot 0, which still really doesn't matter but I like consistency)

6. install your secondary drive in the other caddy. you might have to use different screw holes on the side of the caddy because it is an identical caddy being installed from the opposite orientation.

7. put the caddies with their drives back in place, putting the main boot drive back where your original hard drive was. screw your caddies in, screw the door back on overtop.

8. install your battery, connect power and install windows feeling good about yourself.

 

one last note. if it is cold or dry where you are, you should technically wear an anti static wrist strap, but if you sit next to something large and metal, touching that to dissapate any charge before and periodically while you work will suffice.

I personally work under a large brass chandelier that is grounded, so that is my surrogate for a proper anti static wrist strap.

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another even more last note: you might actually not need to purchase a new drive. if your current drive is in good working order and is at least 750gb, or a capacity you feel comfortable with and just desire more performance, just get a 120gb or 250gb 840 evo if you can afford it and install windows on that, keeping your current drive as your data drive.

then you can backup your important files and format your data drive, put your important files back and you are good to go.

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