This is how you do it:
This is the back of the Dell Inspiron 1501. Turn yours over, it looks exactly the same. Blue is the power cable, red the hard drive area and brown/orange the battery. Remove the battery and the power cable. This is the MOST important step and the one thing, if not done, that can permanently damage your computer.
After removing the battery and unplugging your power cable:
Locate these two screws in the red. This holds the hard drive in the laptop. Unscrew them and put them in a safe place. Now pull the battery out, it comes out easy and shouldn't need to be removed forcefully.
Locate the two screws on the hard drive itself. these hold the battery to the laptop drive cover. Remove these screws and put them in a safe place.
Now reverse these steps with your new hard drive:
1. Screw the hard drive onto the driver cover.
2. Gently insert the hard drive back into the laptop.
3. Screw back in to two screws on the back of the laptop and hold the drive in place.
4. Plug in your battery and power cable.
5. NOW INSTALL UBUNTU
edited by pHreaksYcle
19 comments:
Hey I was wondering what type of hard drive you used, since I want to upgrade my drive as well, and I don't want to end up using ATA when I need SATA. Thanks in advance
I bought a HITACHI Travelstar 160GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache Serial ATA150 2.5 Notebook Hard Drive
Hey!
I love your blog. It help me a lot to install my ubuntu on Dell Ins. 1501.
I am just wondering if there is any way to replace the DVD/CD rom drive with a new hard drive. I intend to buy a new hard drive but, if possible, I would like to replace it with the DVD drive.
Many thanks in advance.
Hey!
I love your blog. It help me a lot to install my ubuntu on Dell Ins. 1501.
I am just wondering if there is any way to replace the DVD/CD rom drive with a new hard drive. I intend to buy a new hard drive but, if possible, I would like to replace it with the DVD drive.
Many thanks in advance.
i don't think so, and if you could it wouldn't be too easy
Hi, I have an old dell laptop, it came with an IDE hard drive, it is possible to replace it with a bigger SATA drive? I mean will the SATA drive fit into the slot? thank you
nope ide and sata are not interchangeable
Is it possible to put a 7200 rpm hard drive in this laptop? I JUST purchased one and would LOVE to do this.
I'm interested in putting in a 7200 rpm hard drive in my Inspiron 1501. Is this possible at all? I'm new to laptops and need to know if this is possible to do with my 1501?...if so, what hard drive would I use?
If this were a desktop, I'd have NO problems at all doing pretty much anything I wanted, but laptops are something I've never ventured into before now.
Dreamer,
You can put any 2.5 notebook hard drive you want into your Dell 1501. from 5GB to 250GB and at any speed. The only problem is faster drives make more noise. I put a 160GB drive in mine but chose to go with a slower HD so my Dell 1501 wouldn't get too loud.
Thanks for the advice reddead! I don't mind the noise. I am looking for power and speed, ya know? I know it's a laptop, but I wanna squeeze every bit of performance into this system as possible. Thanks so much for the advice you've given me. VERY helpful. I hope you keep yer blog up for a LONG time.
Does anyone here know how to replace the dvd/cd drive in this Inspiron 1501?? I could REALLY use this info! Please lemme know.
Great "instructable". As always, the first place I look for any Ubuntu "hints and kinks" is your blog. Ubuntu 7.10 beta is finally running 100% on my 1501. Thanks to all your information.
Hello.
Sadly my Dell 1501 just crashed (after only 2 months) and I have to take it in to service to be replaced. But 1st I would like to back-up my HDD if it`s possible, and for that I have to remove it from the notebook. So I wonder: by doing this, am I violating the waranty? Or is it ok to take the HDD out ?
Thanks.
I couldn't give you sound legal advice on that Vlad, I do not work for Dell or know the ins and outs of Dell's warranty policy.
I can tell you that both times I sent my 1501 into service I did it without sending in the hard drive. Call them and ask, I'm thinking it doesn't make a difference.
Thank you for the clear, step-by-step instructions with photos. I'd not messed with a laptop's hard drive before. You made it easy.
Replaced a 5,400 rpm 60 Gb Hitachi with a 7,200 rpm 100 Gb Hitachi to get a little more speed and space.
Is the old hard drive now trash? No way! Along with the new drive I got (from Newegg) a Rosewill SATA to USB adapter. The old drive now has a new life as a portable backup drive.
Just a minor correction: in your last picture you have the wrong screw holes marked. The ones that the disk drive slot cover attach to are on the sides of the drive (at least they were for me). Other than that, very useful post.
i was just wondering if you knew what the maximum size hard drive that can be installed in a 1501 is?
I think I know the 'answer' already though it's not mentioned above, so to clear the issue up:
-a DEll Inspiron 1501 has a SATA-150 bundled.
-to upgrade one must match this with another SATA-150?
If one bought a SATA-300 drive, the drive would not function. Yes?
Also: the fact that there is an SATA controller chip in "IDE mode" is not the issue. Is it that the IDE part is the part interfacing with the OS? This meaning it doesn't matter that the drive is SATA and not IDE.
Anyway, it'd be nice to hear another opinion!
Roger.
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