How to upgrade a laptop hard disk from HDD to SSD

How to Upgrade Laptop Hard Disk
to SSD?
Posted in Articles, Hardware • 8 months ago •
Written by Shais • 14 Comments
The solid state disk SSD is faster than the old
standard HDD. Nowadays the SSDs are going to
become cheaper in price. It is still expensive and
will not suitable for everyone’s computer. So we
need to know the steps to upgrade Laptop Hard
Disk to SSD in case of replacing the old hard disk to
a new one.
In this article we simply explain it in a step by step
pictorial guide to upgrade laptop hard disk to SSD.
You should consider the details of your laptop
before purchasing a new Solid State Disk. Check
out what model your laptop is? Dose it support
SSD? Is it physically compatible to upgrade to a
new SSD?
These are the questions you must answer before
going to upgrade laptop hard disk to SSD. So let’s
start the game.
Unscrew the Back Panel of
Laptop
When you want to boost the speed of your laptop
hard disk, you must consider good brand SSD. Try
to search Amazon and compare a few according to
prices, quality and other features subsets. Then buy
it form Amazon or a local computer accessories
store.
1. If you are ready then turn your laptop off and
disconnect power cable and other connected
cables then correctly unscrew the back panel to get
access to laptop hard drive.
Unscrew the Back Panel

2. Now unscrew the back panel carefully and do not
damage the back cover or front side of your laptop.
How do Correctly Unscrew Laptop Back Panel
3. Find out what is a correct way to unscrewing
laptop’s back panel. To be sure that dose it open
from back side or front side?
Upgrade Laptop Hard Disk to SSD
This is the correct and incorrect methods to
unscrew the back panel of this HP laptop. No one
is responsible for your sabotage or damaging your
laptop. So do it carefully.
Remove the Back Panel of Laptop
4. The laptop should be unscrewed without any
problem or damages. So the next step is removing
the old HDD and replacing with new SSD.
Now Upgrade Laptop Hard Disk
to SSD
Now the laptop is ready to upgrade it’s old hard
disk to a new solid state disk. Find all screws that
securing your drive to the laptop and unscrew those
before you remove the laptop hard drive.
Unscrew Laptop Hard Disk
1. Try to unscrew all screws that securing the hard
drive.

Unscrew Laptop Hard Drive
2. After unscrewing hard drive, disconnect the hard
disk cable.
Disconnecting Hard Disk Cable
3. So good and easy. Now unscrew the old hard
disk clamps from both sides of hard disk.
Unscrew Laptop Hard Drive Clamps
4. In this section screw the new SSD. I’m using a
new Kingston 240 GB solid state disk for this HP
laptop.
KingSton SSD for Laptop
5. Connect the SSD cable and fit it then screw
clamps to secure the hard disk.
Fit the Laptop SSD – upgrade laptop hard disk to
SSD
6. The final result of upgrading laptop hard disk to a
new SSD drive. I had upgrade the RAM also.
The Final Result
7. Now try to carefully fasten the back cover and
screw the panel of laptop to secure it. Do it like the
same as unscrewing.
Fastening the Laptop
8. Turn on the laptop and in

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I hope this step by step upgrading laptop hard disk
with a new SSD has been informative and help you
to simply upgrade your laptop hard disk to SSD.