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Laptop hardware: Core hardware

Laptop hardware: Core hardware

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Laptop hardware: Core hardware

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- After looking at all the instructions, I'm going to have to pop a battery on this thing. All right, there's a battery. No great excitement there. All right. And then after reading the instructions it says I have to pry this off using a spudger. Now, I could use a spudger or I could just use my spudger-y fingers. Okay HP, that's how we do it, got it. Wow, looky here, kids. I can already see there's a lot of stuff in here that's going to be interesting to me. I guarantee you that that's a hard drive. So, let's go with that one, 'cause he's going to be easy. (energetic music) (drill whirring) So as I pull this drive out, I can see it's a regular old SATA Drive. But, it has this weird little proprietary SATA connector. So, regular ol' SATA drive, no big deal there. Just go ahead and go get another two and a half inch SATA drive. Slide this in. Now this has its own little heat shield. I have to pull this off, put…

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