Installing HD in laptop

[vette-freak]

I have an Ashton Digital laptop that the hard drive is bad. It is an old one but I would like to use it as a backup. Just wondering how hard it is to install a new hard drive.........if I can find one.
Thanks

[Black Hawk]

Well some laptops have the HDD installed on the side where you can just pull it out. I've seen others have it inside and you have to uninstall the keyboard.

[muddocktor]

It also depends on how old the laptop is too, for adding a new hard drive. If it's real old (pre-1999 or so), it might not support a hard drive bigger than 8.4 GB.

[vette-freak]

It also depends on how old the laptop is too, for adding a new hard drive. If it's real old (pre-1999 or so), it might not support a hard drive bigger than 8.4 GB.
It has a 12 gig now but wont boot up (win98). Tried to boot up with cd & get hard drive damaged message.

[muddocktor]

If it has a 12 gigger in it now, then I would think you should be ok going with a 20 gig drive at least. You should be able to find that for pretty cheap too.

[maggie99635]

I just replaced my Inspiron 8200 with an Hitachi 7200rpm drive. As long as it is the same size in dimensions it is usually easy. The drives come bare so I had to take the plug off the end and put it on the new drive.