Change Hard disk on Latatude D600

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When buying from Dell, it costs UKP190 to upgrade a Latitude D600 from a
30Gig disk to an 80 Gig disk. I can buy a 5400 rpm 80Gig IBM Notebook
drive for about half that price.

It says that the drive is removable - can I just clone the supplied 30G
drive on to an 80G drive that I buy from another supplier, and put it
all back together?

In particular, are there any physical reasons I shouldn't do this
(special rails, specially shaped fittings etc.)

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John Appleyard

 

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John Appleyard <spamtrap@polyhedron.com> wrote:
>It says that the drive is removable - can I just clone the supplied 30G
>drive on to an 80G drive that I buy from another supplier, and put it
>all back together?

Yup, works just fine!

>In particular, are there any physical reasons I shouldn't do this
>(special rails, specially shaped fittings etc.)

Nope, all the bits you need are on the old drive. A couple of minutes
with a screwdriver and you are done. In fact, the hard part is
cloning the drive, though even that's easy with Ghost...