scott8629

I have a basic dell inspiron 1300 laptop that I use for the internet, MP3, Photos and wordprocessing ect.

I have a 40GB hard drive which is rapidly filling up.

So How easy is it to install say a 120GB hard drive and while I am at it upgrade the ram to 1024meg.

Is it easy to back up the entire 40GB Hard drive then put it all back on the 120GB?

Any guides kicking about on the web??

Scott

NickAdams

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Upgrading the ram is easy.Stick to Crucial though for your memory as I've upgraded many a Dell machine with Crucial memory and they run absolutely fine. (They aren't the cheapest but worth paying the few quid extra)
Hard drive is easy but you'll ideally need to use a program like Symantec Ghost (Or similar disk imaging software) to copy the contents of the current 40gb to another computer or external hard disk and then ghost it back to the new hard disk.I'm pretty sure that the 1300's have a Dell utility partition on the hard disk (About 40mb or so partition that launches the Dell diagnostics - This can be access normally by pressing the F12 key just before Windows launches) so make sure you take an image of the whole disk as opposed to a single partition...

Good luck

Nick