| Laptop Hard Drives | | | | the hard disk. The laptop hard disk is enclosed in a sled |
| Laptops look like small notebooks or large notebooks | | | | form housing linked to the slot cover. |
| which are only about 0.7 to 1.5 inches thick, and it has a | | | | Remove the old hard drive from the laptop and attach |
| size ranging from 10 x 8 inches to 15x11 inches and up. | | | | the new drive. Restore the sled screw but do not |
| Most modern laptops weigh about 4 to 12 pounds. The | | | | over-tighten it. Align the new drive pins with connector |
| older models were much heavier. | | | | in the laptop, then slide the new drive into the slot and |
| A subnotebook is a laptop designed with a long life | | | | then restore the cover. |
| battery. It is commonly lighter and smaller than usual | | | | Restart the laptop and follow the instructions in user |
| laptops, weighing about 0.8 kilograms to 2 kilograms. Its | | | | manuals to enter the system's BIOS. If the new hard |
| battery life can exceed approximately 10 hours. | | | | drive is properly installed, it will be recognize by BIOS. |
| The notebook is another classification of an | | | | Load the operating system disk into the DVD or CD |
| energy-efficient laptop, economical, lightweight and | | | | drive, reboot the laptop and then follow the directions |
| optimized for wireless Internet access. It is mainly | | | | on the screen and then install the operating system. |
| designed for e-mailing and web browsing. Notebooks | | | | Once the operating system is installed, move your |
| have a wide variety of light-weight operating system | | | | important files to the new laptop drive. |
| such as Windows XP and Linux. | | | | Types of Laptop Hard Drives |
| Most laptop hard disk are normally smaller, about 2.5 | | | | IBM Laptop Hard Drive 60GB |
| inches or 1.8 inches as compared to desktops with 3.5 | | | | The IBM Laptop 60GB hard drive is an internal hard |
| inch hard disk. The more recent models are more | | | | disk. This drive offers sufficient capacity for portable |
| expensive but are lighter, power-efficient and have | | | | video editing and recording with efficient-power |
| faster hard drives. 260 to 320 GB sizes are the | | | | consumption as compared to the traditional 3.5 inch |
| current usual sizes for hard disks now. Most of these | | | | hard disk. This drive also provides great storage for a |
| drives are easy to install because both the hard disk | | | | variety of consumer and commercial notebooks as |
| and the laptop are smaller as compared to a desktop. | | | | well as non-PC applications including MP3 players, GPS |
| Installing a New Laptop Hard Drive | | | | system, copier, printers and PDAs. |
| Back up your important files. If you are changing an | | | | Apricorn 80GB Internal Notebook Hard Drive |
| existing hard disk and it is still functioning, back up all | | | | This 80GB internal hard drive demands a high |
| import files stored on the drive. | | | | performance and a reliable storage system. It has |
| Turn off your laptop and unplug the cord. Find the slot | | | | rotational speed of 5400rpm and the seek time is 13 |
| that homes the hard disk, then remove all screws that | | | | ms average. This drive features an OEM equivalent; |
| connects it to the slot cover. Then, smoothly pull out | | | | free live technical support and high capacity. |
