[skwannabe]

My father got this sony vaio notebook for a great price. But the downside is that it only has 40 gigs of harddrive. I searched online to see how hard or easy it is to install one. After reading and viewing pictures, it looked very easy to me. So did installing a ram stick on a notebook. Anyone got any pointers installing ram and harddrives on a notebook?

I do have some experince installing ram, video card, and a battery supply on a desktop.

Thanks.

-edit-
Forgot to say that its a FS Sony Vaio and uses DDR2 ram.

[OsiX]

Its that simple, remove and plug in new one.

[awdark]

^Perhaps he will want to use something like ghost to image the drive in an external usb box then load the new drive with the data?

And he will get to keep the old 40gig drive as an external usb drive...

Yeah other than that like osix said, its easy stuff!

[OsiX]

^ I suppose that is good, I just use put the old HD into an external USB case

[skwannabe]

W0o? Thats a pretty smart idea. I think I will steal that from you guys. Thanks for your help.

Also how can I transfer the stuff on my old hard drive onto my new hard drive?

[awdark]

Well, if you get one of those USB enclosures for the hard drive... you can connect it to your desktop and run a program like norton ghost (demo works for 15 days I think) make a nice image of the drive...
stick the new drive in the enclosure and have ghost put the data back onto the drive (if it lets you check a little box for bootable check it... or it wont boot to windows)
And thats about it...