Thanks a million for the guide, i was having problems releasing the back cover and hadn't realised that the five screws unde the keyboard needed to be removed. After that it was easy. Simple and easy to follow guide without any flim flam. Perfect. Cloning the HDD to SSD cost me an evening of searching for free software that actually worked without hidden charges, finally stumbled accross Macrium Reflect which works perfectly and is totally free. Great job! Many, many thanks.
Great tutorial, must say Dell gave their customers a lot of extra work with their laptop, when it comes to change hard disk. Thanks to you I did it well.
My first ever laptop, started working to afford a better one but still bought this same version along with a new because I just love this machine, had it during my high school years
Thank you for your video. MY HELPFUL TIPS TO VIEWERS: Open Disc drive before starting or have 📎 paperclip nearby. On the bottom, the small middle screw holds the Disc drive in place. When removing Disc drive, I had to remove the middle silver screw at first with the Disc drive bay open, then after removing the entire Disc drive then I could remove the two outside silver screws. When removing keyboard, DO NOT remove the keyboard tape! Gently put keyboard back in place after ONLY removing the white & blue Disc drive tape (this is the only tape which is attached to bottom of laptop). DO NOT remove any other tape!!
I struggled with the ribbon cable for the HDD when reassembling. Fishing the ribbon cable while keeping the SATA connector in place on the laptop backing was probably the hardest thing on this install for me. Anyway, I got it done. Thank you for this awesome video.
Thanks - awesome vid - changed out to a really fast SSD from the factory 5400RPM mechanical drive! Now the laptop boots up in just a few seconds and runs great!
Great help! Now I have a new SSD in place. One thing, at 2:08 you remove the 3 tapes. You only need to remove the first one to the DVD drive, the others can stay connected.
If he redid the video with that little information on DVD removal, this will be a fantastic tool. Look where the battery is removed from, you will see a slanted silver lining; that is the back of your DVD unit. Push it to your right - towards the DVD player and the unit will come out. I use a flat head screwdriver to push against it. Other then that "Thanks very much for the DIY video!"
Do not do this step at 2:45 unless you have already unscrewed the last screw holding the left hinge pawl. If you tilt the palmrest you will break off the nut of this bolt.
Mine is getting stuck at the anti-theft lock and is the last point where you just pulled it apart. Should I just use more force on it? Also My DVD didn't come out nearly as easily as yours did!
NICE. THANKS! I tried opening my laptop but had forgotten many screws. Almost destroyed the machine completely. Now because of you I can finally put my god damn SSD instead of the factory-installed shitty 5400 rpm HDD, a complete shame. thanks a lot.
great video, followed step by step it worked. 2 things for me, my 5100 didn't have a nvme slot :( only hard part was fishing the the wire back to the keyboard area when putting it back together.
Good to the point video on the mechanical aspect of replacement, but what about the process of getting the Boot portion of the drive onto that SSD before it was installed? That is what I am most worried about. And some loaded applications (e.g., MS Office 10) one no longer has disks for. There are some sticky items to address. I pity the poor fool that goes through the whole process with an unformatted and unloaded SSD,...closes the whole thing up then presses the ON button and wonder why they get NOTHING. Only to later find out the whole thing needs to be likely removed and get the SSD loaded with the HDD materials.
I disassembled it to clean the fan. Turns out there's no fan, lol. Just a little piece of plastic where the fan should be. Can't believe how crap this laptop is.
This is absurd. The only thing less absurd about this, than Apple, is that you can get parts. Seriously, a practically full tear down, to access the HDD???
LOL hard drive removal just as I suspected... Good to know it takes a bit of force before applying it. It almost looks like there might be a latch but it foolls you
Not easy to replace HDD. Compared to HP, I would prefer to buy a HP so easy to upgrade parts. Now I understand why Dell is expensive because it takes more labor to install it. I would rather buy an HP.
Thanks a million for the guide, i was having problems releasing the back cover and hadn't realised that the five screws unde the keyboard needed to be removed. After that it was easy. Simple and easy to follow guide without any flim flam. Perfect. Cloning the HDD to SSD cost me an evening of searching for free software that actually worked without hidden charges, finally stumbled accross Macrium Reflect which works perfectly and is totally free. Great job!
Many, many thanks.
Great tutorial, must say Dell gave their customers a lot of extra work with their laptop, when it comes to change hard disk.
Thanks to you I did it well.
My first ever laptop, started working to afford a better one but still bought this same version along with a new because I just love this machine, had it during my high school years
Thank you for your video.
MY HELPFUL TIPS TO VIEWERS:
Open Disc drive before starting or have 📎 paperclip nearby.
On the bottom, the small middle screw holds the Disc drive in place.
When removing Disc drive, I had to remove the middle silver screw at first with the Disc drive bay open, then after removing the entire Disc drive then I could remove the two outside silver screws.
When removing keyboard, DO NOT remove the keyboard tape! Gently put keyboard back in place after ONLY removing the white & blue Disc drive tape (this is the only tape which is attached to bottom of laptop). DO NOT remove any other tape!!
I struggled with the ribbon cable for the HDD when reassembling. Fishing the ribbon cable while keeping the SATA connector in place on the laptop backing was probably the hardest thing on this install for me. Anyway, I got it done. Thank you for this awesome video.
Thanks - awesome vid - changed out to a really fast SSD from the factory 5400RPM mechanical drive! Now the laptop boots up in just a few seconds and runs great!
Great help! Now I have a new SSD in place. One thing, at 2:08 you remove the 3 tapes. You only need to remove the first one to the DVD drive, the others can stay connected.
Why do you disconnect the tape under the keyboard? They don't seem to have anything to do with the hard drive.
Convenience
Unfortunately you can't remove the back cover with the tape attached.
Thanks so much! Worked perfectly! Saved me a bunch of money and trouble!
How do you remove the DVD? I can't remove it
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If he redid the video with that little information on DVD removal, this will be a fantastic tool. Look where the battery is removed from, you will see a slanted silver lining; that is the back of your DVD unit. Push it to your right - towards the DVD player and the unit will come out. I use a flat head screwdriver to push against it. Other then that "Thanks very much for the DIY video!"
@@rstryke3 thank u very much
Do not do this step at 2:45 unless you have already unscrewed the last screw holding the left hinge pawl. If you tilt the palmrest you will break off the nut of this bolt.
Really bad design from Dell on this one. Have to disassemble the ENTIRE laptop just to change HDD or RAM!!!
That's by design so that you pay for it.
Hello! Where is the fan??? I have the same laptop.
Mine is getting stuck at the anti-theft lock and is the last point where you just pulled it apart. Should I just use more force on it?
Also My DVD didn't come out nearly as easily as yours did!
Do you a link for this SSD? I just want to make sure that it's compatible.
Thanks for the video I have the problem with removing back cover of the laptop after this video I have realised thanks for the video
Is this really effect to laptops speed ?what about processes or rem
NICE. THANKS! I tried opening my laptop but had forgotten many screws. Almost destroyed the machine completely. Now because of you I can finally put my god damn SSD instead of the factory-installed shitty 5400 rpm HDD, a complete shame. thanks a lot.
How much ram will the 5100 series hold? I seen one site saying 16 gb and another said only 1gb
This was so helpful, thank you!
Please help me. How to install a cooling fan in this model because cooling fan not available in it so am facing heating issues , please help me.
great video, followed step by step it worked. 2 things for me, my 5100 didn't have a nvme slot :( only hard part was fishing the the wire back to the keyboard area when putting it back together.
Thank you very much! This video helped me. All the best to you!
Good to the point video on the mechanical aspect of replacement, but what about the process of getting the Boot portion of the drive onto that SSD before it was installed?
That is what I am most worried about. And some loaded applications (e.g., MS Office 10) one no longer has disks for. There are some sticky items to address.
I pity the poor fool that goes through the whole process with an unformatted and unloaded SSD,...closes the whole thing up then presses the ON button and wonder why they get NOTHING.
Only to later find out the whole thing needs to be likely removed and get the SSD loaded with the HDD materials.
What is the maximum ram capacity?
can i changed its processor?
Great no bs to the point video
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What was the point of covering that in the very beginning and not the rest of the video?
lol
Is there speed increase?
Ofc SSD is significantly faster than HDD, so the laptop will start sooner and the laptop will be better at multitasking
I will like to know where can i purchase a screen for this ?
Alan Tobias EBay or Amazon
Do you know what's the thickness of this SSD/HDD ?
7mm
Muchas Gracias
I disassembled it to clean the fan. Turns out there's no fan, lol. Just a little piece of plastic where the fan should be. Can't believe how crap this laptop is.
This is absurd. The only thing less absurd about this, than Apple, is that you can get parts. Seriously, a practically full tear down, to access the HDD???
weird to see one DIMM slot on a laptop that could come with 6 GB of ram from the factory
dude
the dvd drive wont come out plz help
oof found out np
Thanks Mate, great video, I was a bit lost. This is such a bad design.
Nice work, thanks
Great
LOL hard drive removal just as I suspected... Good to know it takes a bit of force before applying it. It almost looks like there might be a latch but it foolls you
Great work!
Thanks
Thanks and God bless!!!
¡¡GRACIAS!!
Thank you
This is the worst laptop I have ever bought.
its true
Idem....
That was the worst laptop I had to disassemble..
The worst DVD slot
Not easy to replace HDD. Compared to HP, I would prefer to buy a HP so easy to upgrade parts. Now I understand why Dell is expensive because it takes more labor to install it. I would rather buy an HP.
I got view 130000!!!
Do not do this! Removing my disk drive this way has caused the cable to break and also many keyboard issues!
That's because you are a fucking idiot with sausages for fingers, and mashed potatoes for brains.