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- [Dave] Hi, Dave here.

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In this video,

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I will upgrade this laptop's hard drive.

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So let's go.

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The current hard drive is a
magnetic-based hard disc drive,

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and it just failed.

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And it's a Windows failure,

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which I show how to
repair in another video.

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For this video, we're
just upgrading the drive.

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I wanted to upgrade this drive anyway,

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and I was just waiting until
it had its first failure.

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So we'll be upgrading this
to a solid state drive,

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or an SSD.

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All right, so I've already
removed the bottom cover

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and the plethora of screws
that come with this.

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And of course, I powered it
down and removed the battery.

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Always wanna do that before you start

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any installation or upgrade.

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And make sure that you
have your ESD prevention,

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electrostatic discharge prevention.

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I've got my wrist strap here
and some other tools for that,

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but make sure you're connected
to a grounded source,

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and I talk about that more
in another video as well.

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Okay, so this laptop is
a Toshiba Satellite E45,

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and it's common with laptops
that are a couple years older,

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ones that were built,
say, between 2010 and 2015

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and maybe even beyond...

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You'll find that these laptops come

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with a magnetic-based hard drive.

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And this particular one runs at 5,400 RPM.

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It's not very quick with Windows,

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and I do need to use Windows 10 Pro

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for this particular system.

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I'm thinking that a solid
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will definitely help with
the sluggish performance,

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and it should be more robust.

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All right, so I've zoomed in here

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to the hard drive a little bit,

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and it's got a main connector here,

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but before we can get the hard drive out

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and get to that main connector,

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we have to remove these flex cables.

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And this is common on laptops.

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What you see here, you
have the main motherboard,

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you have your main board,

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and then you have over here
a secondary circuit board,

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and that's used for a couple
of the side connections

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on a laptop.

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We've got an audio.

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That's our 3.5 millimeter
or 1/8 inch jack.

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We've got a USB port and an HDMI port.

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So all these need to
communicate with the main board,

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and it does that through
these flex connectors.

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But unfortunately, they're
in the way of the hard drive,

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so we have to remove those

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in order to get the hard drive out.

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So when you're working on
laptops and other mobile devices,

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you wanna have a nice toolkit

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and have some shims available to you.

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And so here's an example of one.

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And here's another.

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Call this a guitar pick shim, right?

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Or you could use an actual guitar pick,

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whatever you like.

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What I like to use for
these flex connectors

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is this little tool.

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This is actually meant for displays,

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but it's very thin and it's fairly strong.

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Make sure that you're using plastic

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for these types of things.

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And you want something
small but strong and thin,

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so you can easily get
into these connectors

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without touching the motherboard

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and without damaging any
components on the laptop.

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So let's remove these.

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What we have to do is we have to flip open

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the flex connectors.

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And so we just pry in here real easily.

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And I hardly did anything,
and that clicked open.

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And we'll do that for each of these.

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And actually, I'm not
touching the flex cable.

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I'm just fitting the tool
underneath the flex connector

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and prying it up.

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And you'll see you have
these handles here,

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these little tabs.

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That's used to pull out the cable,

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so you don't actually touch the cable.

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And we'll do this last one.

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Easy peasy.

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And then we can take out the cable,

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and you can do this a couple ways.

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You can use the tool and
just kind of back it off,

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or you can grab from that tab.

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Okay, it comes out real easy.

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You wanna be very gentle with these

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and don't touch the actual
contacts on the edge.

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And so we'll put this aside.

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And you may choose to put
this in an antistatic bag,

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but you wanna put it aside.

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What I like to do is
I like to put it aside

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in the same orientation
the way we found it

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and possibly take notes, document.

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And really, it's a good idea
to take a picture of the laptop

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before you start

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as part of your documentation, okay?

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So we'll pull this other cable out.

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All right.

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That one, you have to be a
little bit more gentle with.

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We'll place that to the side as well.

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That exposes our hard drive
and allows us to take that out.

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We can pry this out as well.

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You might need something
a little bit stronger

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than what I was just
using to get that out.

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And in some cases, it'll
just come out on its own.

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And I just pulled from the
rubber casing that's here.

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And then what you'll see

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is you'll see we have a connection.

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I don't wanna pull too hard on this,

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but we have our SATA and
power connections here.

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So what we wanna do

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is we wanna pull that
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And there is your connection.

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And you have your data and
your power connections.

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And so, for example, if you look here,

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you'll see the data and
power connections on a drive

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and on a drive that's been opened up,

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and the power is 15-pin.

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That's the longer connector.

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And the data is seven-pin.

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You can actually count out those pins.

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All right, so that is our drive.

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You have a couple additional
pins here, which we rarely use.

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Jumpers.

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But that is our data seven-pin

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and our power 15-pin right there.

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Now, this has this housing,

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and I like to save these
so that we can use them

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with the new drive we're gonna put in.

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And you may or may not find some aluminum,

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which you can try to save.

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It depends on the drive.

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On this one, it's gonna
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Usually, you just leave it on.

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Okay, now I'm gonna hold onto this drive.

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As I say, I show how to
repair the Windows issues

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in another video.

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And of course, you may want
to recover data from this,

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and I show how to do that
in another video as well.

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But now what we wanna do

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is we wanna get that new drive out.

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So we'll take that now.

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And this is a solid state
drive, as I mentioned.

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And you got the same connectors here.

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You'll notice we don't
have any of those jumpers

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'cause we rarely use those,

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but this has gotta
connect in the same way.

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We've gotta orient it in the same way,

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so we're gonna connect it this way.

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And we'll reapply our
little rubber assembly here.

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This is meant to be something

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that's gonna help it
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if you have a magnetic
drive, like this older drive.

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But it'll help to keep this
drive fitting in there nicely.

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We don't really need it 'cause
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but it'll be nice because it'll keep it

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fit in the bay here nicely without moving.

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Okay, so it might take a little doing

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to get that rubber case on there,

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that rubber casing.

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It's like a jacket, and it has little...

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Instead of screws going into
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it's got little tabs that go in there.

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Okay, so once we've applied that,

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we'll connect our SATA
and power right here.

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Always try to connect evenly,

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so it goes in all at once
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so we don't damage any connectors.

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And then we'll place this into our bay.

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Sometimes it might be a little
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with that rubber jacket on the hard drive.

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So if you have to, you can remove it,

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but it's a good idea to try to keep these.

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That's gonna fit in there nicely.

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Okay, and we'll make sure

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that our connector is in here good.

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And we wanna make sure
that the cable here...

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Tuck that in a little bit,

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so that it doesn't get damaged

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when we put the bottom cover back on.

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Make sure it's flush in there.

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Okay, so the hard drive is connected.

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Now, we just have to put
the flex connectors back on.

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So we'll grab both of those.

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And these can be a little tricky.

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We'll put this one in.

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Okay, and you can see
if it's in all the way.

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You can look for those copper connectors,

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make sure they're actually
inserted in there.

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And so it can be a little...

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This is the tougher part,
really, of any installation.

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So we'll put that in, and we'll
use our shim once again...

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To close that.

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And you can use another tool if you like.

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Maybe something a little flatter

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might be a little better here,

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but I have this available.

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Okay, we'll get this
other connector in here.

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Flatten it down.

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And close that.

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Feels good.

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That was the tougher flex cable.

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And we'll take the other one.

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This one is a little bit easier.

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We'll place that in there.

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a lot of people are just
gonna use their fingers

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to close these,

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which in a lot of cases you can.

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I just don't like to get my
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to the circuit board.

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I don't wanna damage anything,

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even though we do have ESD protection.

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So I'll keep using my
connector here, or my shim,

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and we'll connect the other side.

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Use that blue tab to help push it in.

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Okay, and voila.

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Now, that doesn't affect the hard drive.

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Those connectors, even if they
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that'll affect this secondary board here,

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with the audio, USB, and HDMI ports.

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So, you know, basically,

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that would be the only
thing that would fail

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if there was a problem with one
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but you'd always wanna check that,

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always test these ports

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because we were making changes here.

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And you know, these flex cables...

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I mean, the connection is not very strong,

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so sometimes when you're
troubleshooting a laptop,

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this is something to check.

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Check and make sure that these
cables did not come loose

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'cause that can happen fairly easily,

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the connector here.

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The tab that closes that
could have popped up,

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and the whole cable could have come out.

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That's common with a lot
of different mobile devices

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that use this flex cable technology.

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Okay, there you have it.

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We have removed the old hard drive,

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the magnetic-based drive.

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And again, this is common with laptops.

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You have a magnetic-based drive like this,

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and it just doesn't run
fast enough or it fails.

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And you can upgrade it
to a solid state drive

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for more performance, possibly more speed.

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And so in another video,

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I'm going to also be upgrading the RAM.

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And once that's done, we'll
install the new operating system

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and compare this laptop to another laptop

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that's basically identical,
with its original equipment,

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and see how much faster
and how much more efficient

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and what better performance
we get on the laptop

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at that point.

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And of course, when you're finished,

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you wanna case everything back up.

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But again, in another video,

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we're going to change out this memory

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and move on from there.

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So that's it for this video.

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The hard drive's been upgraded.

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Installation is complete.