install a bigger hard drive

[sdemaree]

im wondering how hard it would be to do myself,i currently have 40GB of hard drive,im wanting to upgrade it to 60GB,i do still have the windows xp cd that came with my laptop so im thinking of taking out this hard drive and putting in the new one,and booting from the setup disc

 

[mgoldb2]

It pretty simple to do for the most part

just set the jumper setting to the one you want and connect the power and data line to it and your done.

here are more detail instructions

http://www.waterwheel.com/Guides/how_to/magnetic_drives/magnetic_drives.htm

 

[sdemaree]

im wondering how hard it would be to do myself,i currently have 40GB of hard drive,im wanting to upgrade it to 60GB,i do still have the windows xp cd that came with my laptop so im thinking of taking out this hard drive and putting in the new one,and booting from the setup disc
i was wondering if i could still open the cd drive even though there will be nothing on the hard drive?

 

[wensk]

The CD drive should open as long as the PC is on. Does your XP disk boot from the CD rom? You may need to enter your bios and change the boot sequence so it starts from CD.

 

[sdemaree]

as far as i know it should boot from the boot cd,i have reformatted my laptop before,and all i did was put the toshiba recovery/dvd drivers cd,that came w/my laptop into the cd rom,and i was able to reformat it from that.

 

[wensk]

You should have no problem then.

 

[sdemaree]

ok,thanks

 

[sdemaree]

thanks for the link