Need help to change a new harddrive for notebook

from416

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I have Acer Aspire 8942G (500GB)for few years, it was getting laggy because of harddriver bad sectors, tried to fix many times. no good results.
thinking to replace a new harddrive,

how difficult to change a new one byself and any good brand?

thanks
 

VirtualLarry

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Depends on whether the laptop was designed to have the HDD replaced. Most older ones were.

They usually have an access-panel on the back, that you undo a couple of screws, remove the access panel, unscrew the caddy, pull out the caddy, unscrew the HDD from that caddy, and remove the HDD from the caddy.

Then you put the new HDD into the caddy, and put everything back together in the reverse order.

Then you have to use your restore discs, or an OS install disc, to re-install the OS.

Then you have to download and install drivers.

Then you have to do Windows updates.