Replace a HP Pavilion N3310 hard drive.
The HP Pavilion N3350 Notebook includes a 5 GB hard drive. If you tend to save a lot of large files such as movies, pictures and music on your laptop, that space will be taken up quickly. When your computer becomes light on hard drive space, you will start to notice freezes, crashes and errors. To resolve low disk space, you can install a bigger hard drive, a process that takes about five minutes to complete.
Instructions
Replacing the Hardware
1. Move all of your important files to a removable drive such as a CD or DVD. Close all applications and turn off your computer.
2. Disconnect the power source and take the battery out of the laptop. Ensure that all of the devices that are connected to the computer are unplugged.
3. Turn over the laptop so its bottom is facing up. Find the hard drive compartment. It is the rectangular compartment in the top left of the laptop. Unfasten the screw to the right of the compartment with your Phillips screwdriver.
4. Slide the hard disk drive latch next to the screw hole. Hold it as you slide the compartment lid to the left and off of the laptop. Slide the hard drive out of the laptop.
5. Slide your new hard drive into the machine and put the lid back on the laptop. Tighten the screw and insert the battery.
Reinstalling the Operating System and Applications
6. Connect your AC adapter to your laptop. Insert your recovery CD into your CD-ROM drive. If the system came with two recovery CDs, insert "Disk 1" first.
7. Restart your computer. Press the "F2" key when the HP logo appears on your screen. Choose "CD-ROM" as the first boot device in the BIOS setup utility. Reboot your laptop.
8. Select "Continue" followed by "Advanced." Pick a size of the "Hibernate Partition Size" in the drop-down list. Make sure that there is not a check mark in the box next to "Do not load operating system." Select "Primary Partition" from the options. Click "Continue" and then "OK" to begin the recovery process.
9. Follow the on-screen prompts, which may ask you to insert your other Recovery CD. When you are asked to reboot your computer, eject the Recovery CD and then press "Ctrl", "Alt" and "Delete" on your keyboard simultaneously.
10. Follow the on-screen instructions to set-up Windows. These instructions vary based on the Windows operating system you are installing.
11. Restore the files that you saved from the previous hard drive. If your files are on a disk, insert it into your drive. Click the "Start" button in the lower-left corner of the desktop. Scroll up and click "My Computer" or "Computer." Double-click the CD icon and view the contents of the CD. You can drag these files to your desktop.
12. Insert your application CDs to reinstall your previous programs. Click the "Start" button in the lower-left corner of the desktop. Scroll up and click "My Computer" or "Computer." Double-click the CD icon, then double-click the ".exe" file to install the software. Follow the on-screen prompts to reinstall your software. If your applications are on the web, open your Internet Explorer browser and go to the application's download page. Click the download link or button, then follow the prompts to download and install the software.
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