How is the hard drive bay opened on a nvh19u - Gateway NV77H19U Laptops

You want to open physically or open it virtually? physically you open your computer case and locate hard drive at hard drive bay. to open virtually you need to locate my computer and open it from there.

Take the screws out of the panel labeled 3. You'll find the hard drive in there. Usually, the drive will be secured with 2 or 3 screws - undo those and slide it out to remove/replace. I tried to look for a service manual but no dice. Best of luck!

The hard drive may have dislodged from the HD terminal. Some early laptops didn't reinforce the connection here. There is a bay under the laptop with a HDD or O)) symbol that opens with a small Phillips screwdriver. There should only be 2-4 screws on the bay panel. Open the bay. The hard drive should be firmly connected to the computer. Make sure the connection is good, then replace the bay cover and screws.


Start up the computer...Update the post on your outcome.

Remove the cover/side panel on the case to get access to the components inside the computer.
The SATA hard drive is secured to the disk drive bay with 4 screws.
Unplug the SATA data cable and power cable from the hard drive, then remove the 4 screws securing the hard drive in the drive bay.
The hard drive can be removed from the drive bay.
Reverse this order to fit the hard drive back inside the computer.

Hello there. before going into the Case make sure to touch the metal


Power down the PC and remove all cables

Open the side of the Case find the hard drive you want to remove unplug the two cables connecting to the hard drive and slowly remove the hard drive from the bay you may need to UN-screw the hard drive.

put in the new drive into its bay connect both cables put the case back together connect all the cables back to the PC boot the System up and reformat the new drive .

If you need anymore help with this problem let me know, i have done it many times myself thank you and don't forget to Rate

Try to open the lid above the button with your nail,you'll see a metal plating covering the inside of it.The expansion bay is to add another drive, like a Cd/Dvd drive. Just don't worry about it too much,when you ad the new drive,you can take the plating off.Whoever adds the drive will open it up,too

are you sure you set your Hdrive with correct jumper setting? check for jumper setting of your Harddrive

Hard Drive Installation Instructions 40 gig IDE DRIVE

1. Shut down the computer and remove Battery Pack and AC adapter.
2. Locate Hard Drive compartment on the front panel, just left of the head phone jack.
3. Turn Notebook upside down.
4. Remove the one torx screw that is securing the hard drive. (A security screwdriver was provided with the computer.)
5. Push down on the hard drive bezel on the front of the hard drive.
6. Lift the bezel up 90 degrees to create a handle. Pull the hard drive out of the hard drive bay.
7. Remove the 4 black screws at each corner and lift off the black tray.
8. Gently remove the silver bracket and connector.
9. Place connector on new hard drive.
10. Place the black tray on the HDD. When looking at the hard drive with the label up, the black bezel goes along the left side of the hard drive.
11. Replace the 4 black screws from step 7.
12. With the hard drive bezel pulled down, slide the hard drive into the hard drive bay.
13. Push up on the hard drive bezel to secure the hard drive in the bay.
14. Secure the hard drive bay by replacing the screw from step 4.
15. Replace the battery pack and all cables

Open the hard drive bay and make sure the hard drive is properly seated. close bay

reboot and enter bios to see if hard drive is detected in bios, if the hard drive is detected and still will not boot use recovery console to recover the OS.<ALT><F10>

If the bios does not recognize tthe hard drive, replace hard drive.

You should be able to - but just as important as an open bay, is a connection to the motherboard and power is necessary. It would also matter which type of drive you have, IDE or SATA. If Sata, and the computer has Sata power, it should be a simple matter to add a Sata cable to an open connector on the motherboard. If IDE, you'd either need to have an open IDE port on the motherboard, or an open connection on an IDE cable. If there is no open port, but an open connection, you'd just have to set the drive to be the Slave, and it should otherwise work fine.

Realize you will probably need to partition and format the hard drive for the system to be able to utilize it.