Bit of a mistake

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Ragex

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Hey guys.

I've made a bit of a mistake. I recently purchased This laptop assuming it came with a hard drive pre-installed. I then realized that the only hard drive it came with was the SSD. Anyone know how hard it is to install a new hard drive into a laptop?
 
1. Under Panel 2 you can fit a mSATA SSD (l have a M4 mSATA 256gb For the OS)
2. Under panel 3 you will find the Optical drive, removing this allows you to fit a 2.5" drive then re-fit once drive is in it (iirc bay 3 is the primary drive).
3. Under panel 4 you can also fit a 2.5" drive here.
4. If you wanted you can get rid of the optical drive, fit a caddy and you can have a 2.5" drive there to.

In all you can have upto 4 hard drives, with a potential storage of upto 4+ gbs (as long as the optical drive caddy can fit upto a 12.5mm 2.5" drive.

Regards.

C.
 
Thanks CEUOTC.

I've just come across another problem, this Laptop is costing me a lot more than I initially thought. When choosing the Wireless Options on the laptop, I was under the impression BT stood for something else. Not Bluetooth. So I can't connect to any Wireless signal. Can anyone suggest and tell me how I can put a new Wireless card in the laptop?
 
That combo BT card should do wireless (WLAN) as well as BT - may need to install proper drivers to get full wireless functionality tho. Definitely shouldn't need an extra wireless card.
 
Might be better if I install Windows 7 first then, I'll have a clue what I'm doing that way - and to get it closer to my router. Thanks
 
Ragex said:
Cheers for that, need to get rid of Windows 8 First though :/
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If you install windows classic start menu and give Windows 8 a chance, you might be surprised.

Failing that there are plenty of option in getting your hands on Windows 7 be it HP, P or U, for a fair price.
 
This is a bit of a thread hijack, but i shall be acquiring one of these laptops in the near future and its not something google can seem to help me with.

What size screws hold in the various compartments on the back? I have an old clevo and they are flat phillips type screws around 4mm in diameter, are they the same on this laptop?

I don't have any tools where i'm currently living so I will need to go buy some and I would sooner have the tool(s) required before I have the laptop so I can quickly swap my hard drive over.
 
Reeve said:
This is a bit of a thread hijack, but i shall be acquiring one of these laptops in the near future and its not something google can seem to help me with.

What size screws hold in the various compartments on the back? I have an old clevo and they are flat phillips type screws around 4mm in diameter, are they the same on this laptop?

I don't have any tools where i'm currently living so I will need to go buy some and I would sooner have the tool(s) required before I have the laptop so I can quickly swap my hard drive over.
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Aye they are flat head Philips roughly 4mm across.

A cheap Maplins/Halfords multi-tool will sort it.
 
Sorry to necro old threads, but what is the difference between the HDDs? Looking at them and theres two of the exact same products but one is 7mm and the other is err, well.. not?

After a bit of pain staking mobile phone research, its mean 7mm thick, would this be needed for that laptop or?
 
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Obviously thinner-more space. Some time they call it laptop SSD but I think in your case 17icn Clevo will take any ssd/hdd which is 2.5" If you would be talking about some Ultrabooks maybe that would make a difference (not sure, did not look/checked) just a thought !
 
Ragex said:
Sorry to necro old threads, but what is the difference between the HDDs? Looking at them and theres two of the exact same products but one is 7mm and the other is err, well.. not?

After a bit of pain staking mobile phone research, its mean 7mm thick, would this be needed for that laptop or?
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Most laptops take a 2.5" x 9mm HDD (Standard upto 1TB mech or say a M4 SSD)

For lager HDD 2.5" x 12.5 mm (1.5 TB or 2 TB iirc)

And finally ultra books take 2.5" x 7mm HDD's or SSD's

Regards

C.
 
Thanks again CEUOTC, in reference to your earlier post I got a HDD delivered to my partners address earlier. I thought I'd take a ganders how to install it, so I opened up compartment C, where the optical drive is. It seems I'm going to need to take the entire back cover off to get underneath the optical drive? The other issue with doing this, is I don't have a small enough screw driver :(
 
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