Excellent video - thanks! What a terrible design of laptop though - pretty much a full strip for a HDD upgrade? Nuts!

Glad you put this up. Got a laptop very similar to this from Wal-Mart and was getting worried that there would be no videos on how to extract this HDD.

Excellent and extremely helpful video - I watched it twice then kept it paused whilst carrying out the disk change - it all went perfectly first time - top notch Brue Computing - thanks very much

Without a doubt, the worst laptop I've ever had the displeasure of replacing a drive on. Just provide an access panel! An unbelievably tedious job to replace what should be a user serviceable part...

Thank You! Without this splendid video I could not have done this job.

Excellent video. Worked perfectly. Just a note for others. My laptop had two additional small ribbon cables on the top side. Have to be careful not to damage them when removing the top section of the laptop case.

You are the greatest! Very clear explanation. We upgraded our laptop for another 8 years for EUR 39,- :)

Thankyou for this great how to video. I had to change the charging port inside my laptop a d this helped me with the dismantle process so i could access that area.

Could not have done the job without this video - I have to say this is the most difficult laptop I have ever had to work on for a simple harddrive exchange - the equivalent of taking the engine out of a car to change a headlamp bulb - HP should be ashamed...

Thank you very much for this video! It helped me immensely. Liked and subscribed.

Great video. Easy to follow and my upgrade went very well!

3:55 Could you please tell me what screwdriver do we need for those screws? I have precision screwdriver set but none fit that one correctly. It's a nightmare to open those.

Thanks for this! It let me open up my NA-032SA which was identical except a minor change in the keyboard attachment. The flat screws at 3.55 didn't play ball with my phillips head 00 or 000. I eventually used a 1.5mm x 50mm crosshead from a set I got from amazon (Vastar 17pcs precision if you need it).

Excellent explanation to remove the hard disk from inside the laptop.

Made my day much easier, thankyou

Thanks, great video, just the detail I needed!

Great video, thanks ! Worked on a HP Pavilion 15-n223sf

Many many thanks for your efforts,i installed without any problems..

thank you sir you saved my computer and my pockets

thanks a lot for the video, it was very helpful and well made

I have replaced the internal HDD in my MacBook Pro before and the difference between that and this HP assembly is staggering... That said, I found this video very helpful when tearing the laptop apart.

Excellent and I have subscribed. HP really made these cheap end laptops hard to access and used inferior ribbon cables and clips on most. They are hard to open because they are assembly line designed for cheap labour and no other reason. HP have occasionally made some quite good higher end machines but those days have gone and their prices are ludicrous for under-specced trash.

Great video helped a lot , thanks

Great guide, thanks very much.

Hi - Can I ask what size of tool removes the three small flat screws in the dvd bay. I’m stuck and can’t find a driver to remove them - many thanks.

Thank you so much for this video it really helped me out :-)

Hi James I have the same laptop and my laptop is not turning on It overheated and broke. I wanted to access my HDD and i was wondering what type of adapter i would need to open the files on my HDD to another computer/laptop Thanks

Is there any videos on changing the fan please? I have this lap and struggling many thanks

Many thanks for the video!

Thanks a lot, great video, hdd replacement went easy (though I wouldn't call extremely simple, there are laptops far easier to disassemble, normally a hdd replacement should not require such a detailed video. Shame on HP that I could not this with the official HP support videos).

best video I found on this, thanks! what a ridiculous laptop

Very helpful!!!! Thank you!

Thanks James - really useful.

So the three screws in the optical bay can be really hard to remove, I can't get them off. Do I need to get these 3 screws off in order to get the top off the laptop?? If I do, how can I they are not budging!!

Whats the name of the connector for connecting the hdd in laptops.Mine is HP Pavilion 15t

Very helpful. Thanks.

He is a genius. Thanks dude...

Oh god, I thought it was just one panel I had to remove! Think I'll do it another night now! I have a HP Pavilion 15-n230sa and it looks the same. Thanks though!

Thank you for a great guide !

How will I know of which ssd to buy what form factor pin that hdd have and to get which ssd I should be buying to it will match up with that plug and form factor ?? Can you give suggestion which ssd I should buy that will improve my laptop performance

What size Phillips head did you use to get those 3 flat screws hidden under the optical drive. I can't seem to get them loose.

Very helpfull, thanks!

I found releasing the keyboard connector a bit confusing and found by looking at another video that you lift the black bit not the white bit. Other than that it was a great video. Thanks

Is it worth upgrading the hard drive in a HP pavilion ts 15 n? My keyboard space bar stopped working so that's $10 there plus another $130 for 1tb Samsung 860 Evo, plus it's still only has 4 gigs of RAM which I would like to have 8 or 12 gb. It's a four year old laptop so maybe it's just better to not bother

Whoever designed this laptop needs a smack in the face. Great vid

It's so frustrating how few laptops provide a panel for easy access to these components. On my ThinkPad, I remove the battery and 2 screws and have access to the CPU and it's cooling system, the hard disk, the optical drive and the RAM.

Thanks 🙏 you're a star 🌟

Cheers, Good video, just bought this for my daughter, i found you do'n't need to remove the ribbon cable above the hdd, just remove the screw and tuck the lot back. not a bad laptop for £30 on fb, just installed windows 10 and all's running tickedy boo.

Thank you for this great tutorial! I just wanted to ask you, how thick is the dvd caddy? Is it 9.5 mm? Is it possible to replace the hdd with an ssd and the dvd with the original hdd? Thank you very much

Thank you so much! You are a life saver! Dammed HP nonsense, this is why I buy Lenovo laptops.

very nice endeed, thanks

Thanks alot man!

was the cd drive connected to mini pcie

Is this the Same Chassis like N072SG ?

does it work the same on hp pavilion n220se

Thanks for the video ...so many screws, and awful clips that make you feel you are snapping the plastic ... which I did around the usb port. I would agree about this being a terrible design, but it is an old laptop, and it looks like all manufacturers now make it increasingly difficult to change 'consumer' parts (I have a new pavilion x360, which has similar challenges)

I did the exact same things in my laptop in order to replace hdd with crucial ssd and now it doesn't open.anyone can help me?

Can I keep old hhd and ssd as well please?

Thanks a lot.

3:06 is that where the ram is ? I am looking to add more ram

thks now i know where to put that new ssd i bought

Thank you very much

thank you so much

Fantastic guide, helped me salvage a hard drive from a dead POS laptop lol. Thank you!

Help my HP not starting and goes to blue screen saying could not start

thank you for the video , did this model suppport M2 SSD Drive?

how to install ssd+hdd both drives on same laptop...is there any provision??...i want to install my os on ssd and other data on 1tb hdd....how to do that??

can we upgrade the gpu somehow

how do i find out what size ssd drive i need for my ?HP Pavilion 15-au010wm

It is very hard to understand what exactly needs to be lifted to release the keyboard cable. You call it "the latch" however not everyone understand what part is "the latch", and it is not very visible since you are not zooming. You should explain that the black stripe should be pulled upward. I had to see another video who made a closeup to understand it. Gladly I did not break the connector

What was its price

What size is the drive. 2.5 inch?

Does it have m.2 ssd slot ??

why did they put so many screws in laptops? it's overkill.

Top vid mate. Saved me a headache with this horrible design. Made to piss people like us off. Piece of shit.

HP pavilion = absolute shit to work with. and the keyboard is very low quality. speed of the original disk : abysmal.

Thank s James for this complete description very usefull. But I will advice that it s not recommanded to open this shit of HP Pavillon. With 40 years of expérience I never have seen a junk material as this HP Pavillon. I can say now that I hate HP and my advice will be PLEASE NEVER open or upgrade a HP Pavillon. It s made to go to the trash only.

3:55 Could you please tell me what screwdriver do we need for those screws? I have precision screwdriver set but none fit that one correctly. It's a nightmare to open those.