Fujitsu S6231 Hard Drive Repacement "How-To"

I recently replaced the 40gb, 4200 rpm, 2mb cache hard drive in my Fujitsu S6231 with a Hitachi 7K60 60gb, 7200 rpm, 8mb cache hard drive.

This was a great upgrade, speeding up all aspects of the computer- boot time and application startups/execution times decreased.

I bought the hard drive at Newegg -

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822146020

So I thought I would take a few pics while I did the upgrade and share this with you all. Luckily for me, the hard drive access on the Fujitsu is just a cover with 2 screws.

 

Here is a pic of the hard drive with the cover removed. The hard drive is in an aluminum sleeve-

 

After diconnecting the hard drive IDE cable from the laptop, I removed the hard drive-

 

Then I slipped the hard drive out of the sleeve-

the little black rectangle in the pic is a shock bumper that came out of the hard drive bay- easily glued back in.

 

Here is a close up of the IDE cable to hard drive connection-

gently remove the cable from the old hard drive and connect to the new hard drive.

 

All that is left to do is-

- slip the new hard drive back into the aluminum sleeve-

- put the hard drive back into the hard drive bay-

- reconnect the IDE cable to the laptop-

- and install the cover and 2 screws.

I then used "The Ultimate Boot CD" (FREE) to set up the new hard drive. TUBCD has many great utilities, including hard drive, memory and dos programs. I used FDISK to partition the hard drive into 2 partitions.

A 20 gb Windows partition and a 40 gb storage partition.

Then I used the Fujitsu Recovery discs to install Windows.

If you want to download the Ultimate Boot CD, you can get it here-

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Overall, this was a super easy upgrade for me, especially since the Fujitsu has such easy hard drive access.

 

After I got the Fujitsu up and running, I took the 40 gb hard drive and installed it into a Vantec 2.5" Aluminum Enclosure.

I got this at Newegg as well -

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145137



This is a very nice enclosure- I got the red one for visibilty, didn't want to leave it in a hotel room!

In planning for this swap I had exported all of my bookmarks/favorites from Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer as well as Email Contacts and folders from Outlook to a seperate folder. Then all I had top do was plug the external hard drive into the Fujitsu and cut/paste the data to the 60 gb drive.

After I transferred everything I wanted to, I just deleted everything on the hard drive- now I have a nice 40 gb external backup hard drive for all of my computers.

 

Nice! I like the pictures, they are very good!

BTW, love the enclosure, I'm buying one of those soon. Beautiful!