Sep 09
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Replacing your hard drive is easy! Also, you can upgrade to a higher capacity drive for more storage space.

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Aug 10

SATA and IDE laptop hard drives

Most modern laptops use 2.5″ hard drives. Older laptops use IDE hard drives, newer laptops use SATA hard drives. SATA and IDE drives are not interchangeable, they have absolutely different connectors.

If your laptop came with an IDE hard drive you cannot replace it with a SATA drive. The connector on your drive will not mach connector on the motherboard.

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