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how to swap hard drive to computer with more ram? Both are Toshiba Satellites, one is a A205 and the receiving one is a L3550.
If the size and connector type is compatible with the PC you want to put the harddrive into, you should be fine putting a harddrive in the receiver pc, though when it contains an installation of windows you need to reinstall windows. As the OS is bound to the motherboard of the laptop it was installed on. For example: Your laptop has SATA connector and 2.5" drive Good: 500GB HDD SATA 2.5" 7200RPM Bad: 500GB HDD SATA 3.5" 7200RPM Good: Clean harddrive + fresh installation of windows Bad: Harddrive with windows already on it, will cause BSoD (Blue screen of death)
Here’s a video disassembly of the A205 Toshiba A205 Hard Drive Replacement My advice is to just copy the contents of the other drive to the new one, grab an external SATA reader and navigate to your user folders in the drive and just extract the data you need. If you want to do a swap you can but I recommend running DriverPack after that to ensure you have the proper drivers to ensure you a stable system. Guides are often found with ease online, just write you computer manufacturer, the model number then hard drive replacement and you should get a plethora of options.
