Computer Notebooks Help

The computer notebooks help provides information to help with notebook hard drive upgrades.  Todays’ notebooks have access covers under the computer towards the side so that the drive can be easily removed.  When replacing the drive you should consider a 7200 RPM and 16MB buffer instead of the slower 54ooRPM and 8MB buffer.  Also if your notebook is compatible with the newer SATA drives you will see a noticeable improvement over the older ATA drives.  ATA drives have a maximum sustained transfer rate of less than 50MB per second.  The newer SATA drives are almost double that at less than 100MB per second.  The only thing that beats that is the newer more expensive solid-state drives that can reach 200MB per second.  It wont be long and solid-state drives will be the norm.  To begin the replacement of the hard drive you will need a small Phillips screwdriver and a clean anti-static work area.  On the underside on the computer make sure power is off and the battery is removed.  Next remove the 2 small Phillips screws holding the hard drive in place.  Next remove the drive and the drive caddy. Place the new drive in the caddy and secure it back in place in the notebook.  Replace the battery and boot the computer to either a bootable operating system install disk or a bootable flash drive that has the operating system install files.  I have a YouTube video concerning installing Windows XP from a flash drive.

YouTube video:  Installing Windows XP From a Flashdrive