Replacing Hard Disk Drive in a Dell Notebook

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Upgrading Replacing Hard Disk Drive Dell Notebooks Laptops HDD Latitude Inspiron Upgrade Replace
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This video shows how to upgrade or replace a Hard Disk Drive in a Dell Notebook. The procedure is very similar in all Dell notebooks across the Latitude and Inspiron ranges.

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Replacing Hard Disk Drive in a Dell Notebook

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  • Good video, thanks. ...

    Good video, thanks. However, my Latitude X300 requires me to open the entire casing and get under the keyboard! Uuurgh.

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  • thanks alot, it ...

    thanks alot, it doesn't seem that scary now ;)

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  • Aw shucks Dell is a ...

    Aw shucks Dell is a whole lot easier! My ASUS isn't as friendly as that. xD

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  • The laptop is ...

    The laptop is trying to boot from the empty HDD and not the CD.
    Enter your BIOs and go to 'Boot Menu'. This will show you a small list of bootable devices. Make sure that your CD drive is ABOVE the HDD.
    Then save and exit the BIOs - making sure the CD is in the drive.
    The laptop will then search to see if there is a CD in the drive, and boot from that, rather then the HDD first.

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  • i put a new hdd in ...

    i put a new hdd in my dell laptop, the bios reads the hdd but when i try to boot from cd it says :no boot sector on internal HDD"

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