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How to replace a hard drive?
I have a 5 or 6 year-old Gateway PC and the hard drive is beginning to get really noisy and sick sounding. I'm not seeing any ill-effects, but it sure sounds like it's on its last days....
How difficult and time-consuming is it to replace the hard drive myself? While I use a computer all day, every day for work, I'm certainly no IT guy, but I'm not afraid to open up the box and do the mechanical work - that part seems easy. However, I'm concerned that I don't have the skills to replace the drive, OS, programs, data, etc... Given that my current hard drive is not yet dead, does that make it any easier? Any advice or simple how-to instructions that a novice like me can handle, or should I just throw in the towel and get a professional to do it? TIA!
Edit: BTW - it's a desktop with a giant tower, not a laptop...
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10-18-2006, 10:06 AM
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