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    Packard Bell Easynote TR87 Hard Drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Graham H, Sep 27, 2015.

  1. Graham H

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    Hi. Can anybody tell me where I can get a diagram or any disassembly instructions for changing a hard drive on a Packard Bell Easynote TR87 please. I have looked online with no success. I have never attempted this task before and I am not a techie. I am getting SMART warnings of an imminent drive failure. I intend to clone the drive using a USB-SATA cable and hopefully the physical swap will not be too difficult. Thanks in advance.
     
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    Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, your link refers to the S series, which looks quite different to my TR87.

    Having deleted off anything unimportant, the remaining used space is quite little. I did an image copy to an external drive but I read that a clone would be the easiest for a non techie like me. As my unit came with Windows 7 pre installed, I do not have a Wins 7 disk. I have also got the original recovery disks and I have done a "rescue media" and a Packard Bell "My backup pilots & apps" disk. The laptop is performing normally apart from the start up warnings of a SMART error and the need to pres F1 at boot up.

    Do I

    1: copy an image to the new drive, connected externally using a USB-SATA lead and then fit it?
    2: Fit the new blank drive and boot up using the external drive and then copy the image across?
    or
    3: clone using the USB-SATA lead and then fir it?

    Any suggestions most appreciated.
     
    Graham H, Sep 27, 2015
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