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It is half and more of netbooks, available today at stores, goes with 80 Gb 2,5-inch hard disk. These notebooks works 4-7 hours on batteries for laptop. Disk space increase, for 250+ Gb will will not be so expensive – such HDD will cost for you $80. Besides, it is good to take care of additional increase system RAM size for what in the most netbooks only one socket is available. 1Gb memory will cost you $15 for a module and all total expenses on the total upgrade will not be more than $100. For this money you get an opportunity to have much more pictures on your netbook laptop, and also result to increase Windows productivity.

After these upgrades HP laptop, for example, can be used without battery for Compaq laptop as ”desktop”, having connected to it the large screen panel, a mouse and the keyboard, – an cool choice for the regular home user. If you just like to increase system productivity, will be enough only increase in size of the memory modules.

Remember that netbooks, as a rule, have no possibility of installation memory modules larger than 2 Gb. Maximum total amount supported by laptop is 4 Gb. Note that some manufacturers do not allow to provide on-hands upgrade of parts (excluding ibm laptop batteries), otherwise you can lose a warranty.

To get access to the HDD, it is need to remove completely a back cover, preliminary turning off some screws. For RAM upgrade you need to insert module at 45 degrees and pull it.

What to do with old disk? The answer to this question is simple – it is good idea to gain special “pocket” for 2,5-inch HDD with availability of its connection to the computer via USB port. The most simple version will cost you of all in $10. As a result you will have an external portable hard drive storage for carrying large files.

How at replacement of the HDD not to lose the info? For this purpose it is enough to copy the info from the laptop to the new HDD. Use special software utilites like Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image for it.