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    Hard Drive Upgrade Problems for Dell E1505 Laptop

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by diytrying, Aug 16, 2009.

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    diytrying Newbie

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    Hi,
    I'm trying to not have to buy a new laptop for my son to go to college. I've changed the memory on the E1505 to 2GB. My problem is how to upgrade the hard drive (60 GB with less than 1% left with just about everything stripped off and no MSWORD). Would just swap out and reload XP but I can't find the original XP installation disks for the laptop. Cloning seems scary to me since it sounds pretty technical and I would have to mess with the Media Direct settings to get it to recognize the new capacity. Is there "easy" cloning software? I've seen a hard drive advertised with Windows XP included. If the hard drive is compatible, would that work? If I decide I can't do it, does anybody have an idea how much it would cost to get someone else to do it?
    Thank you for any and all help.....
     
    diytrying, Aug 16, 2009
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