anyone know how to add in another hdd inside inspiron 1520? any guide? or maybe changing hdd inside it with bigger hdd. how to open the hdd compartment

For your info, you cant add in another hdd inside inspiron 1520. Unless yours model is 1720, then you may add in another hdd together with some other added components.

You can, however, upgrade your hdd to bigger capacity, like 320GB since their price are so cheap nowadays ~ less than RM 240. The replacement is procedure is very simple. Turn your 1520 upside down, facing its bottom part. There you can see 4 symbol of cylinder like shape. Use a crossed screwdriver to unscrew it. After unscrew(better keep the 4 screws properly), then you can slot out your original by pulling it out near the audio output or under the Card slot. The hdd will have 2 screw attached to the slot. Simply remove it and replace your new hdd and rescrew it back. As simple as that.

You can refer to your INSPIRON 1520 handbook also. There are picture explanation there as well.

erm , just figure it ystd from dell support page. anyway thanks for the explaination. byw if i gonna use my hdd as external disk with exclosure, will it hard to fix with the exclosure? any guide on it? cause planning buying new bigger hdd as my lappy hdd and the old use as external hdd.therefore need to install the exclsore but i not good at it.

guys...i just got myself a seagate 160 hdd for my 1520...its noisy...annoying...

anyone here using a better one? i mean quieter, faster and better...

thanks for sharing in advance...

now many enclosure can be easily fit with hdd...i now got nexstar lite for 250gb hdd...easy to install.
but until now i also no use my 250gb since i still got more spaces for my 3.5hdd

oh, so it is very easy to install. thanks for the info

ya..somemore cheap..i only get mine for RM45+
you just need to plug ur hdd to enclosure only

yeah nice to hear that. cause plan to tk out my 120 as externa later. den buy another 320gb as my hdd. overload with drama ....

lol

now even The Gem of Life drama with 80 epis..prepare ur HDD space

btw i got vista ultimate and im using home premium..i wan to upgrade to ultimate but not a format type..can i just upgrade to ultimate without disturb my all files inside hdd??

if i am not mistaken u can. juz insert ur ultimate disc to ur drive when u logging to to windows. let it autorun and do install windows ultimate. this i think will upgrade to ultimate. anyway really 80 episods? faint. now only got 5 . 75 to go. walao insane

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Added on October 25, 2008, 1:29 ami am googling about the upgrade issue. seems many ppl failed to upgrade. look like my method cant work. sorry.

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Added on October 25, 2008, 1:30 amif not fresh instaling, i think u will get alot of driver compatible prob and some error happened

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Added on October 25, 2008, 1:41 amthere is ways to get feature on ultimate to be done to home premium. but with some software. like dreamscene, shadow copy and so on...

part 1
http://blogs.howtogeek.com/mysticgeek/2008...1-disk-imaging/

part 2
http://blogs.howtogeek.com/mysticgeek/2008...t-2-dreamscene/

part 3
http://blogs.howtogeek.com/mysticgeek/2008...-3-shadow-copy/




This post has been edited by gliew_87: Oct 25 2008, 01:41 AM

means cannot just upgrade without format??

man..i got many softwares inside and lazy to install back..now i regret that i no format once i get the laptop so that i can partition my hdd

since everyone is talking about hdd title, can someone tell me how quiet is ur hdd please? thank you very very very muchy lar...

err
no noise??lol

mostly all the noise is from my notepal infinite..others cant heard

hmm...which HDD u mean??external or inside the dell wan??if talking about EXTERNAL HDD...mine almost silent..=)...and if internal dell 1520 HDD, it is not that noisy but if it is running at max speed of course u can hear a little sound lah..but not annoying de lah...u wont even realise the noise if u dun pay attention to it...SO BTW how louds is ur HDD "raymannlucas"???

This post has been edited by kahwei: Oct 26 2008, 01:00 AM

mine (toshiba 320GB) is relatively noisy with the seek and write noise. if i use the samsung 320GB, it's much more quite, BUT, will click from time to time, which is annoying.

The price for 3.5" 1TB 7.2k 16mb is 390 here , anyone know the price in lyp ?

My Seagate 160gb going to burst soon , left 14gb only.

THANKS GLIEW_87. Finally i'm able to run Dreamscene on my Home Premium. NICE....

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Added on October 27, 2008, 12:11 pmany manual or instructions on how to apply new thermal paste?

This post has been edited by elwwmatrix: Oct 27 2008, 12:11 PM

im gonna upgrade to vista ultimate soon and read some help topics that upgrade will not harm my personal files..hope it wont

what are u using now? i just got a latitude d630 from dfo and it has vista basic, lol, vista is totally alien to me

im using vista premium and stock from dell..no format before...

btw is dell's oem ram better than outside ram like corsair??