The designers of the N5110 are pranksters, and wanted to surprise everyone that was trying to do a quick hard drive upgrade. I send them some "happy thoughts" on every SSD upgrade of these laptops.

The right hinge was broken on my N5110. I wanted to reuse as much HW as possible. Hence, this video is a cool guide for a whole disassembly of the notebook. Thanks a lot.

Thank you for sharing this wonderful video of a worst design laptop

Saved me a lot of headache on this. Mine wouldn't boot past the BIOS screen so I was going to just pull the disk out and put it in my disk toaster to read instead. Well, in part with the teardown I forgot to open the CD bay, so when I powered it on with the battery out it fired up with no issue. 4 years of content, saved now.

I was just thinking of swapping the hdd of the same model notebook ... Wow! I'll just go to the service shop .. btw, I'm dealing with PCs for the last 20 years and I've never seen design like this one ... Anyway, very good video! Thank you!

Wow thank you. You saved my money just wanted to purchase this laptop but after this i wont.

Makes me wanna change whole laptop instead of just hard drive.

Excellent tutorial on the disassembly of this computer.

Good video! Thank God I only need the HD out and do not need to put it back together.

By far the worst computer I've taken apart. Thanks for the vid.

Still useful in 2021. Wanted to yank the hdd out of my old laptop buried in the garage for about 6 years!

Thank you for explaining it beautifully... God Bless!

Great video, thank you ❤

thanks for making this video

Can't agree with you more. Had to replace the HDD in one of these Dell N5110 laptops. It's not difficult but it's very annoying. Most laptops involve only one or two screws to be removed in order to replace the HDD.

Great vid. Thanks.

Great job. Very useful video.

I have a question about NVIDIA GeForce in in Inspiron n5110

Thank you for the detailed instructions

This is an excellent video, helped me take apart my n5110 but I don’t know what the problem with mine is, the lcd will not turn on but the computer will. At one point it was doing the 2 beep error sound but after disassembling and reassembling the computer it is in the same state that it was in. I had some water spill & it got inside the computer earlier today but I cleaned all of it out and now its just kaput. Is my information still obtainable if I remove the hard drive or is it lost forever?

thank you for sharing this, very much helpful

What THE FUCK is this hard drive location?????????? Oh my gosh!

Thanks for this bro, needed to take out a hard drive to destroy it. Fuck this laptop to infinity though.

Might as well just re-thermal paste the cpu at that point...wow dell never ceases to surprise me at how shitty they make their products

Oh my god Dell did it again with this horrible and disaster design of the laptop. Stay away from Dell product people.

great video . Dell crap

Wow, that's the stupidest design I've ever seen on a laptop... what a shame.