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Thank you guys..

Thank you Dr-Kiev. Do you know the article link for this, it looks very useful and I may give it a go.

Wise words. I've already substituted the 5200mAh battery with a 8800mAh one. The CPU upgrade is not essential, so long as the SSD will give the required increase in startup and application speed. I was just considering the CPU upgrade as other slightly faster units aren't overly expensive - now.

After a trip to the crucial website, I thought I'd upgrade the laptop with 8Gb ram and a new SSD drive. I realize there are single and multi level drives with single being faster and more expensive. I need about 250Gb and would like some input on the best speed/price SSD for my laptop...

On another post I realize the heat and power issues of upgrading a CPU in a laptop. Mine has been working so well that after a trip to the crucial website, I thought I'd upgrade the laptop with 8Gb ram and a new SSD drive though that leaves it still with an older CPU. It comes with an Intel i5...

I think it's integral. I believe if I try to remove the end, the whole board will come off exposing the discs. It doesn't look like an end cap.

Thank you guys. @Boosted, I took photos of my drive to show you what connections I have and put them on box - https://app.box.com/s/x97gurtwas22vixyj5dm Does this make any more sense? I think it was an early USB3 drive. I had logic errors due to USB3 being poorly supported on my laptop and...

Hi all, I have a damaged 1TB drive I wish to plug directly into my PC to try some aggressive data retrieval techniques but I'm not sure how to connect other than I do not want to use the USB. The main connector is 12 pins (6 above the other) and two pins, likely for a jumper (I'm guessing boot...