Well, sounds like you're almost there. As I mentioned, it is really simple to replace the internal hard drive in most laptops, Dell included. It takes 2 screws to remove the cover, two fingers to lift out the old drive, remove the 4 mounting screws, remove & replace the drive and reverse the procedure. The whole operation takes less than 10 minutes, more like 5. There are certain truths in life...
- Equipment will fail at the most inopportune time.
- There are two types of data---lost and backed up
- Occasionally backed up data becomes lost data.
I have 2 laptops, 2 cloned internal hard drives and 2 data only external drives. Bring on the hurricanes, I'm prepared. The 12k karaoke songs plus the 14k DJ songs eat up a lot of space, but I'll hopefully never have to download them again.
DC