According to this review there is no optical drive, (CD/DVD drive),
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The new harddrive is blank. No Operating System on it.
No Windows.
After a person installs a new harddrive, the basic procedure is to use the Restoration Disk, and when asked choose Full Install.
(Destructive Installation)
No optical drive.
[No Restoration Disk is NO problem. Contact HP Support.
In the US it is $17 for a 5 to 7 day ship, $24 for a 2 to 3 day ship.
Have more info for US, and other countries if you need it ]
This means you will go through some 'changes', if no optical drive.
More than I believe you may wish to take on.
(Don't want to overstep myself, or seem rude)
The next thing is there may be a harddrive limit.
Might be capped at 135GB, and not allow a 300, or 500GB harddrive.
If this holds true the harddrive is then partitioned;
300GB harddrive;
Partitioned into 3 partitions, of 100GB each; or 4 partitions of 75GB each.
500GB harddrive;
Partitioned into 4 partitions of 125GB each.
Fools BIOS into thinking there is just a 75GB, or 100GB, or 125GB harddrive; instead of a 300GB, or 500GB unit.
Yes. More headache if you may not be adept.
I suggest using an external harddrive instead.
Just my thoughts,
Regards,
joecoolvette
SOURCE: upgrade hd on laptopp
The easiest way is to remove the casing under your laptop and see what make your drive is, but any make of laptop hardrive sould be ok. Sometimes the hard drive may be held in a cradle so you will have to remove it if this is the case and use it with the new hard drive. A problem comes when you probably have the Acer backup/restore folder on another partition(which sometimes includes Windows, as you don't always get a hard windows cd rom),on your current hard drive, so make sure you have a Copy of Windows otherwise You'll have to purchase another Windows installation disc, or clone your drive with something like Norton Ghost.
SOURCE: how to install hard disk and memory of my laptop?
there are 2 door on the back of your laptop (Aspire 5580).
1 is for harddrive, and the other one is for memory+wireless cards.
just open the screw + the cover and you can see the hdd and memory.
SOURCE: Hard Disk upgrade
Figured this out...
1) Flip laptop over, keep front of laptop closest to you and hinges away from you
2) Remove cover with cylinder/harddrive icon (2 screws)
3) Remove small single silver screw near the front (close to you) of the laptop in the center of the metal harddrive caddy (the caddy may hold one or two hard drives)
4) Pull the plastic tab on the left toward the outside of the laptop... the whole caddy with harddrive(s) inside will shift to the left, disconnecting it from the motherboard and lining up the caddy for removal.
5) Lift the entire bracket straight up
To remove the primary harddrive (the only one present in my model) you must remove the blue L-shaped circuit board from the caddy.
1) Flip the caddy over
2) Remove the three screws with slightly larger head diameters around the perimiter of the caddy
3) Push/slide/jiggle the circuit board so the sata connectors release from the hard drive(s).
4) Unscrew the hard drive from the caddy
SOURCE: Internal Hard Disk Upgrade
Yes, there is. Match the type of drive (Serial ATA or Parallel ATA) you get with what you have. Make sure your Satellite sees the drive in the BIOS. For drives larger than 120 GB, recommend operating systems Windows XP (Service Pack 2 or higher) or Vista. Older OS's have a 137 GB limitation (they only see the first 137 GB of the hard drive despite its size).
SOURCE: My Acer Aspire 5100 Laptop wont detect the hard drive
If it works on another computer then either the ide cable in the acer is bad/loose at either end or the ide controller on the motherboard is bad. I would try a known good ide cable first as if this is the problem it is fixable alot cheaper than a motherboard. Hope this helps.
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