Yes.
Is the hard drive connected to a mounting bracket? If so, what type of screws secure the hard drive to the mounting bracket
Yes.
Usually, the hard drive connects to the motherboard.
The hard drive should be on the bottom connector and all you other drives on the top connectors. Thats how mines connected!!!!!!!! :-)
1. The power cable is not connected to the hard drive. 2. The data cable is not connected to the hard drive. 3. The hard drive logic board has been damaged or is malfunctioning.
It's a mounting device or a convenient extended cable to mount devices. For example, a mounting device to plug in a USB or a mounting device to place a external hard drive or a cd/dvd external drive.
fiber optic cable
Oh, dude, those are just regular ol' screws. You know, the ones that twist and turn to hold things together? Yeah, those are the ones. Nothing fancy, just your run-of-the-mill screws doing their job. Like, who even pays attention to that stuff anyway?
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.
Nope - a scanner is a peripheral - something which is connected to the outside of a computer. It has nothing to do with the hard-drive.
Universal Bay Kit
A hard drive is called OEM when sold by discount stores with little packaging and no accessories. A retail hard drive comes in an individual box and will generally have an installation booklet and possibly mounting hardware and a cable. The OEM drive will arrive in a padded container, probably without the mounting screws or brackets and definitely with no cables. The OEM drive will usually cost about $10 to 25 less than the retail drive.