Once you have the drive out, you’ll need a dock to connect a bare drive to your computer via USB. You can buy a dock online for around $25. The dock will power the drive and you’ll know pretty ...

Assuming your laptop currently has a standard hard drive, it is almost certainly a 2.5 Inch SATA drive. So, you will be replacing it with an SSD of the same size and interface (internal connections).

Step 2: If your laptop has a hard drive, or older 2.5-inch SATA SSD, you should see it locked in place with a few screws and a pair of cables. Remove all of those before gently pulling the drive free.

An external hard drive and a laptop (Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson) HOW TO TRANSFER PHOTOS AND VIDEOS FROM YOUR EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE AND APPLE DEVICES. Transferring files on a Windows PC.

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