need immediate help with hard drive

[jlreed1]

i'm literally two steps away from installing a new hard drive and i can't get the torx screws out. is it absolutley vital i take them out and put them in the new hard drive?

thanks
jlr

 

[Tallest Skil]

Er... If I remember correctly, there should be three phillips screws on the "L" bracket and then four phillips on the drive carrier. I'm not sure where you're getting ANY torx...

*heads to ifixit*

Ah, four torx. Yes, you need to get those off to put the new drive in the carrier.

You really need to have a torx screwdriver for this, but if you're okay with ruining the screws, you can use a flathead screwdriver that is small enough to fit in the torx head.

 

[DoFoT9]

go buy some torx screws! they are so cheap! dont ruin them.

 

[jlreed1]

Just ran over to a friend's house who messes with computers a lot. Got everything sorted out and I'm posting from my 13" uMB with a new 500 gig hard drive.

Thanks for the quick responses!
JLR

 

[DoFoT9]

Just ran over to a friend's house who messes with computers a lot. Got everything sorted out and I'm posting from my 13" uMB with a new 500 gig hard drive.

Thanks for the quick responses!
JLR

yewww!!! the hard drive space fills up quickly believe me. it will be gone before you know it

goodluck!

 

[andalusia]

yewww!!! the hard drive space fills up quickly believe me. it will be gone before you know it

Oh how right you are! Going from a computer with limited space of 70GB (lots of which wasn't used by me, family computer), then going to a laptop with 120GB all to myself I thought it would be great. Then I got an external 500GB hard drive... now I wish it was a 1TB hard drive... How can I use up so much space so quickly?! xD

 

[DoFoT9]

Oh how right you are! Going from a computer with limited space of 70GB (lots of which wasn't used by me, family computer), then going to a laptop with 120GB all to myself I thought it would be great. Then I got an external 500GB hard drive... now I wish it was a 1TB hard drive... How can I use up so much space so quickly?! xD

its really crazy!! i have around 5TB of storage sitting at my house, with barely 2TB left at most. it just gets filled up!! when i get out into the workforce a very nice big RAID system is in order