Eureka!
How
to replace your hard drive?
Have your computer slowed down as if it had
gained an extra 100 pounds, or you keep getting a message saying something
about a hard drive failure or you are running out of storage space on your
computer. Well these issues point to a very simple solution, a hard drive
replacement.
A hard drive replacement is quite a simple
task, once you know what you are doing of course. When replacing your hard
drive, you want to ensure your data is backed up on an external storage devise
or clone your hard drive using cloning software.
According to Tom Fisher in an article ‘How do
I replace my hard drive’ posted on About.com Guide, following these simple
steps will enable you to successful replace your hard drive while retaining
your data:
1. To
replace a hard drive, you'll need to backup any data you want to keep
2. Uninstall
the old hard drive,
3. Install
the new hard drive,
4. Restore
the backed up data.
It is important to note that the specific
steps necessary to replace a hard drive differ depending on the type of hard
drive you're replacing.
An article on Lifehacker categorises the hard
drive replacement into desktop hard drive and a laptop hard drive:
Upgrading a Desktop Hard Drive
When it comes to upgrades, desktops are
always going to be easier to deal with since you can easily get in there and
move cables around, and in this case, because you can hook both drives up at
the same time, greatly simplifying the whole process.
What you'll want to do is hook the new drive
up—since we'll be using a boot CD, you can save a step by plugging the new hard
drive into the primary slot, and move the old one to the secondary—so once the
cloning is done you won't have to do anything else.
Upgrading a Laptop Hard Drive
Method
One: While some laptops have the capability to
swap out the optical drive and add another hard drive, it's not common, so
you'll need to use an external USB hard drive, or potentially another PC with a
shared folder, to save an image of the current drive. Once you've created the
image, you can install the new drive, and then restore the image onto the new
hard drive.
Method
Two: Your other option is to install the new
hard drive, use an external USB to SATA adapter to hook the old drive to the
laptop, and then clone the drives that way. This eliminates the extra step of
copying to a secondary device, but requires spending a little extra money for
something you might not use very often—so you might want to borrow one from a
geek friend that does PC repair (or just use the first method above).
It is that simple to replace your hard drive,
no matter what type of computer you have. Put yourself out of the headache,
stress and unnecessary delays and replace your computer’s hard drive and enjoy
using your computer the way it is supposed to be used.
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