Re: M100 change HARD drive

Hello

I have an 'old' Portege M100 and I suspect a broken HARD drive. The laptop freeze suddenly and sometimes crash with a blue screen. Most of the time it will not start at all. I managed to reinstall XP with my recovery CD twice, without change.
I would like to change the HARD drive, but I read somewhere that the BIOS is actually on the HARD drive itself. Is this true? If so, how can I swap the HARD drive then? I also fear that changing the HARD drive will make inoperative recovery CD?

Don't want to lose the M100 ;)

THX,

Kris

Hello

As mentioned, the BIOS is stored on the ROM chip which is part of the motherboard.
To update the BIOS ROM module must be flashed.

The other thing is that the replacement of the HARD disk is not really complicated.
To my knowledge, you need the 2.5 IDE HARD drive.
Bay drive HARD bottom of the unit and it s fixed with screws.
If you remove the cover of the HARD drive Bay, you can easily remove the internal HARD disk.

In some cases, it s in the cradle and you need remove the extra screws (2 on each side) so of to withdraw his support.

See you soon

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