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"Yeah, I'll change your drive na add RAM, it should be easy" - that's what I said to my friend. I didn't think it would be so difficult :) thanks to your vid I've somehow managed to do it :) thanks!

The tip on pulling the keyboard totally saved me from trouble. Thanks immensely.!

This information is worth an ounce of gold. The wife's Inspiron, same model, has been excruciatingly slow. I think this video will be of great help for this 77 yr old do-it-yourselfer. Thank you PC Monkey

I suggest removing the battery first (when possible) before ever opening up and disconnecting anything from the internals of a laptop. Then before proceeding any further, hold down the power button for a good 10-15 seconds to drain and residual power from the system.

I needed to take the hard drive out of this computer so I can recycle it. I could never have done it without this video. Your step-by-step instructions were so easy to follow. Thank you so much.

Dude, you make this sound and look so easy...I got to change the RAM for a client's i3 (yeah I thought they were i5s) Inspiron 3558 - and never have I had to open a laptop up before to change RAM - damn you, Dell...why couldn't you keep an access door for the RAM!!! Thanks a ton to you for this video, from London, England :-)

Cheers mate! I changed my hard drive following your video and it has worked wonderfully!

Great video thanks so much for posting - I've done this a few times already and needed a quick reminder on the steps so this was super helpful - one piece of advice for newbies I would recommend however - before you screw in the base as shown in the video, flip over the laptop and make sure the ribbon is all the way through and easily accessible and properly attached - so pop everything back together and attach the keyboard etc and then attach the battery and power on and verify that your ribbons are properly attached as its a huge pain to discover something is not connected properly and then have to unscrew it all and fix. Obviously be very very careful using the laptop while it is not screwed together, then when you know it is working screw it all back in place and you are good to go. Thanks again PC Monkey!

Great video! The old hard drive stopped working and I upgraded to SSD. It runs faster now. Those ribbon cables are so small and fragile. Thanks for all the good information!

i learned more in this 11: 27 video than all the wasted hours watching crummy shabby bogus info. videos on the same subject , Thank you X's 100 !!!

This video was a great help. The Dell manual says nothing about taking out the keyboard first. It really helped me replace the HD to an SSD and RAM from 8GB to 16GB. It does recognize the new memory and SSD It doesn't look like it is performing any better on the first startup, but I will use it for a while an update this post.

Thanks for this video. Helped me get to my hard drive.

followed this not soo easy but done. i broke at rotating end of case but not that much visible so i am happy. For newbeis starting be careful. Don't try with new laptop. Tutorial was great and helpful.

Excellent video. I wanted to remove the hard drive before recycling this model. I got about halfway on my own when I decided to look it up. Saved me time and from resorting to a hammer to get at it!

Thank you for the video. Was able to follow right along.

Thank you very much, helped me to replace the SSD without damaging the laptop

Thank you x 10! I have the same laptop that you're using in this demonstration. Bitlocker locked my HDD or partition. I could not boot into Win 10. I was able to get bitlocker recovery key, but I had no record of the password. Regardless of inputting that 48 digit key I could not boot into windows. I could not disable bitlocker on that drive/partition. A tech aquaintance suggested replacing hdd. This vid gave me the knowledge and courage to do so. However, at one point I thought I had fried my mother board. And I followed the steps in pc monkey vids on what to do if machine turns on the off...steps for discharging static charge and for resetting bios. Things didn't get righted until bios reset step. At that point the laptop started to have some response but I had a black screen. Then I listened to pc monkey vid on what to do if you have a black screen. That's when it all started to come together. I had popped my ram card out during the 1st video,this video, to get the info off of it incase I wanted to add more ram later. I did not re-seat the ram card properly. Ounce I did that I was able to reinstall windows 10. I wolud have never been able to do this and recover from my own ineptness, misstake, without pc monkey. I'm going back to all the pc monkey videos I viewed to get me back up and running and give each a thumbs up. The videos are practical, instructional and to the point. Thanks for not adding unnecessary stuff that make vids un-necessarily longer than needed. Big fan an new subcriber! P.S. Does PC Monkey have instruction on my original problem saving my data and wiping my old hdd. I can't at this point save data or wipe the drive because of the locked partition. I tried connecting drive via sata to usb. Drive not showing in 'this pc' or disk management.

Great video, Well explained. Thank you!

A most excellent instruction video. Thank you!

Thank you for this video. It was extremely well done.

This is the best vid on this I found for my Dell, may be because it is in english. The others do not even have text as to why the keyboard has to come off. Some people seem to replace the drive without cloning which seems strange , if you were not setup with a usb to install Windows from. You can get a "toaster" (10-$20) to put the old drive in to read off old files , or clone the old drive onto the new drive thru a usb port.

Thank you boss!!! Amazingly done!

Thank you very much. first time and subscribe good video .

Very useful !! Thanks a lot!

Very thanks man , you saved me a lot of money .

Appreciate this so much!

Well Done! Great work

Complimenti per il video ,sei stato chiaro e preciso. Grazie

Good tutorial. Thanks.

Thank you very much!! This video helped me a lot :)

Great video. Thanks so much.

thanks. Your video helped me a lot today.

Thank you very much, Help me a lot to change the normal hard with SSD ! ;)

Very much appreciated!

Thank you a lot for this perfect technical informstion

Excellent presentation

Thank you so much. I just replaced my old hard drive for a SSD.

Very Useful

Man your video are helpfull , i managed to save money by installing hard drive and windows alone

I normally just rip off the backcase so this was helpful to know

I have the Dell Inspiron 15 3000 series but I couldn’t get the back cover off after taking off the keyboard etc. My back cover had a partition that’s held in by a screw so out of curiosity I unscrewed it and removed the panel. This was the HDD and RAM panel so I didn’t have to remove the keyboard and DVD after all. I guess that the 3000 series has other models. Great video by the way. I now know what to look out for when doing future upgrades.

thanks for this video.

THANK YOU SIR, YOU ARE SO GREAT, AGAIN TANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR.

Watch for the clear plastic power light prism becoming loose. It snaps in the center front of the laptop.

Thanks. This will help when I will replace my hard drive. Any recommended places that can recover pictures from a broken hard drive?

Hello, thank you so much for your very helpful informational video, I have a couple of questions, though. if you don't mind. mine is a SSD hard drive, I believe same as your video. my question is, do I need to reprogram once I buy the new bigger one? this would be my first time doing it so do I need to store the software, or how do I transfer the system files to it? and if is not too much to ask , which SSD drive would you recommend buying? thank you!!

does it support 500gb ssd and above?

Thank you for actually making it clear how to detach the keyboard properly!

A to Z great video thanks

Is there seperate slot for SSD in the (inspiron 15 3000) laptop? Dell site lists 3 disks including the DVD.

Can you add an ssd there ? Thanks for the video, very helpful.

hi, could you tell me what size the screwdriver is that you used? also your video was very clear and will be helpful soon! thanks

Thanks a lot

Thank you

I want to know if the cpu can be updated n what's the correct cpu I want to upgrade May dell inspiron 15 3000 for music production

Thanks for the vid btw, could probably have done this on my acer by trial and looking. No way would have thought this out as non technical person

I have an inspiron 15- 3552 and I purchased the ram to upgrade to an 8gb. I'm nervous about tearing into it bc im afraid I won't be able to get something back together right. I tried taking the back off last night and wasnt able to get the screw out that's holding in the cd drive. Thank you for this video I'm going to try again in the morning crossing my fingers it goes smoothly!

Thanks bro

Does this laptop have a spot for an M.2 storage?

My computer is completely busted but I need the files on it so I planned on taking it apart and using an enclosure to hook the hard drive onto my new laptop but I don’t know what enclosure type to get. The old laptop is a Dell Inspection 15 3000, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks that was very helpful ! Do you know if I can add a Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD in it? Thanks in advance !

Thank you I found this. Very helpful. I followed your steps but once I powered my computer on now I get the message ‘no bootable device available’. What could have possibly gone wrong or what did I miss?

Thanks you saved my bacon. Upgraded to 8GB and a Crutial SSD.

A Soft aluminium can from a soft drink cut to size and folded double makes for a temporary pry tool for removing clips. kinda

Can you recommend a tool get? Great video. Looking at replacing my hard drive with ssd. Thanks.

What kind of tool did you use to take the keyboard out, and where can I buy one from. Nice video thanks for sharing. #PEACE✌🏾

Is there any way of putting the keyboard ribbon cable back in. I'm having trouble with this part. I was able to successfully pull it out, but can't put it back in.

I have a 2009 Dell Inspiron 1750, purchased a hard drive off of Amazon they say it has blank so it's saying no hard drive detected on the laptop. So what do I need to do to make the laptop functional?? Need help ASAP thank you.

GREAT! After watching this I feel ready to "reseat" my hard drive. At least how to get to it. Thank you I have an (OLD) Dell Inspiron 1545Pentium Dual core CPU T4200@ 2.00 gb ghz memory4.00 gb SYSTEM 84 BFF DS HOPE THIS WILL HELP ME

Should my laptop have 2 RAMs like yours did or is just one in the A slot ok? This is the first time I took my laptop apart and I only have 1 inside.

Thanks

Hey I had a drive from my dad's old dell inspiron 15 3000 but it has serotonin software to stop u from using it in another kind of labtop how can I take it off

can this caddy fit an ssd drive?

I am watching this video in my Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series laptop. Inshallah I will update the RAM and replace ssd into HDD and put the HDD into Cady in DVD drive. I am watching this video from Bangkadesh

Tks mate

Hi I have Dell inspiron 15 3565 with AMD processor and GPU and i already upgraded the ram from 4 Gb to 8Gb also i added SSD Hard with HDD hard instead DVD to make it more faster to use it in graphic apps like PS and AE but the problem is that After Effect need NVIDIA GPU for some projects and i wonder if that possible to replace AMD GPU with NVIDIA GPU plz give solution for that problem cuz i googled a lot and i couldn't find specific answer for my question THX ALOT

Thanks PC. My i7 acts like a Pentium III, it's just a slug, so assume it's not an SSD drive. I've replaced my SSD drives twice in my desktop and it comes with software to transfer the C drive data via a USB cable to the new drive. So the question is how do you do that with a laptop? I've got 3 USB outs and an HDMI port too. Thanks in advance.

I did everything you did in this video! There were a couple of things I want to run by you. The little plastic piece that’s at the bottom kinda free floating, is that normal? When I opened the back, there was no DDR4 DIMM B card, there should be one right?

Is the reason for removing the keyboard to disconnect that small ribbon cable?

Can I use the hdd from my HP Elitebook 8460p in the Dell Inspiron 15 3000?

Help! I have a Dell 5558. We’ve had the pc for a couple years but haven’t used it at all. I no longer had a charger so I bought a new one. First when I pulled it in it was working just fine(I think). The computer charging light was on and so was the AC adapter. The laptop wouldn’t turn on but I figured it was way too dead so I left it alone to charge. I went to plug my phone in and I accidentally unplugged the charger. I plugged it back in but noticed the charging light on the laptop wasn’t on anymore. I tried to unplug and take battery out thing but still no luck. I’ve watched a couple videos of yours and I’ve been researching for a while but still no answers.

My hard drive is coming tomorrow and I’m looking forward to watching this tutorial so many thanks. 🙏 😊 Do you know if the processor on Dell Inspiron 15 3552 is replaceable?

Can this also help with "Harddrive not installed" In the bios diagnostics?

What websites is good to order memory ran?. My Inspiron has a open slot and it has now 8gigs, same laptop as this one. Okay to put more? Also, I just changed to ssd drive after now..

Great video, but I wish you did an extreme close-up of flipping the keyboard connector up and also the prying of the case. My laptop doesn't have the smaller ribbon cable which is probably for the DVD drive, which mine doesn't have. I'm wondering if I really need to remove the keyboard just to access my HDD since I don't have the smaller ribbon cable. I was able to do after, after unscrewing the 5 screws underneath the keyboard. Started prying at the DVD drive space.

Still need to make new HD work.. my son has a 200gb and wanted to see if possible to transfer everything from old drive.. pre loaded windows do no disk or code

Where did you get your tools?

Hi, from that laptop since i have the same, what will you recommend from these: RAM: 2X16gb 2400mhz - crucial - samsung - kingston fury * is the RAM mhz cannot be exceeded to 3200mhz? M.2 - kingston NV1 NVMe PCIe SSD - Samsung 970 evo plus Thanks much

Thanks! But what do u do after I replace it and now it keeps going to Support Assist and beeping 5 beeps non stop? 🤔

i just took out the hard drive blew on it and it worked

Does this laptop have m.2 slot or I have to install 2.5 inch ssd. Kindly help as I want to know before opening my laptop so that I can order the same from Amazon

Hello Sir, Thanks for sharing this video I have Same Laptop inspiron 15 3000- Intel R Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz 1.80 with RAM 4 GB Can I upgrade it with 8 GB and what RAM model you advise me to buy from market/ Amazon Regards,

I have an Inspiron 3542 and all you have to do is remove one screw to access the hard drive and memory. I advice you check your model it seems they are not all the same.. I used this video and removed all the screws and keyboard before realizing .. it was much easier than what is illustrated here.

Thanku ❤❤❤❤

Do new hard drive come preloaded or does one need to reload everything? I know nothing on repairing a computer. Just bought a new laptop to replace the one that suddenly said hard drive not installed after 11 years. I can play with this one.

any ideas to make stuck screws smoother?

Hi, need to know what to do after replacing my hard drive in my inspiron 3000 series. dont have a disk or bootable device??

When unplugging my wire I disconnected the wire and the hard drive from the motherboard and from that’s it hasn’t worked is there a way to fix that?

ok sr