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Article: Replace your laptop's hard drive: swap in a healthy, roomy new drive in five easy steps.(HELP & HOW-TO: WEEKEND PROJECT)
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- Computer Shopper
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- November 1, 2008
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NOT LONG AGO, replacing your laptop's hard drive meant packing up the system and shipping it back to its maker, or dropping it off with a local repair shop. Either way, you'd have to live without your computing companion for some time, and depending on who was doing the work, you'd likely pay plenty. Fortunately, most of today's notebooks allow easy access to their hard drives. Here's all you need to know about replacing your notebook drive without incurring tech-separation anxiety--or a big bill.
1 Choose your drive well
The standard drives in modern laptops--excepting a few of the very slimmest ultraportables--conform ...