Shut down the laptop. Turn over the laptop and you will find a small panel with a Hard drive sign with 2 screws on the panel cover. Unscrew the cover carefully and pull out the HD very carefully. It's very simple.
As a laptop repair tech I see this problem often and there are only 2 ways to remove the HDD password on your Gateway computer. First way is to contact Gateway Support and they can calculate the HDD master password for your hard drive.
You can access the hard drive from the bottom of the laptop. If you turn the laptop upside down, you'll find the hard drive door under the Toshiba sticker with the laptop serial number. Remove two screws from the hard drive cover and then remove the cover. Slide the hard drive to the right and remove it. Transfer the hard drive bracket to a new hard drive.
Usually yes. You will have to get a computer technician to remove the hard drive from the smashed laptop & recover the data from from the drive. However, if the hard drive was damaged when the laptop was smashed this may not be possible.
1. Turn the laptop onto its back 2. remove the battery 3. remove the two screws which attach the CD drive to the laptop with a small Phillips screwdriver 4. gently prize out the CD with a flat screwdriver [before replacing the old CD/CDV drive, you will have to remove 2 small brackets from the it and screw them into the new drive. These brackets enable the new CD drive to be secured back into the laptop]
No, you will not have to remove an external hard disk each time you turn your laptop off.
Remove hard drive and place it in an external caddy.
Turn off the laptop, remove the battery. Remove the cover, and remove the hard drive and the CMOS battery. Count to 10 and put the CMOS battery back in the computer. Get a power drill with a 5/16 metal tip bit. Drill several holes in the hard drive, through and through. Get a new hard drive.
Flip the laptop over so that the rubber feet are facing up. Remove the screw in the center of the laptop with the picture of a lock near it. This is the only thing keeping the cdrom drive from sliding out of the laptop. If it doesn't come out easily, you may need to power up the laptop, open up the cdrom tray, power off the laptop (while the cdrom tray is still open) then repeat procedure above - however, you'll now have the cdrom tray to use as a handle to pull out the entire cdrom drive.
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it should that has almost the same specs as my laptop and by "how long will it take to get your premium to be able to play" i dont know what you mean. -_- you must purchase a premium account (if that helps)
Would I need an external hard drive case? I opened up the Gateway and there are no cords that would be able to connect to the hard drive from the Dell, unlike someone had told me. Though I understand because they are two different computers. Answer: Shut down the computer. and then open cabinet and remove hard drive power cable and data cable. and screw. and then install new hard drive.
you go over to the laptop go to items click on thumb drive and put it in the laptop