How to remove hard drive of a laptop

[GusFraba]

Hello
Here I would like to change the hard disk to a aged person. The laptop is a Toshiba M40X-185, which way should I proceed? Do I have to remove the keyboard for that purpose? Do I have to dismantle each and everything or is there any specific location from where I can take it out? Thanks

[nitesh mehta]

This explanation below explains how I replaced my hard drive. I was completely successful and transfered about 20G of data, Windows XP operating system and settings. The process took me about 14 hours but much of that time does not require a person in attendance.


Warning!
THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE BASED ON MY SINGLE EXPERIENCE. YOUR COMPUTER IS LIKELY DIFFERENT AND SO THESE INSTRUCTIONS MIGHT NOT WORK OR MIGHT EVEN CAUSE DAMAGE

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS THAT RESULTS FROM FOLLOWING ANYTHING ON THIS PAGE.

These instructions are my best effort to explain how I replaced my drive. I have extensive experience in computers and electronics and so my instructions might skip steps that I considered straight forward. Your experience may differ.

That said, I hope this is helpful and I would be glad to hear your comments or suggestions.

Backing Up
As we should all be doing regularly, it is recommended that you back up all the especially valuable data.

• Small and Valuable - If your hard drive is failing rapidly or you only have a limited amount of time, focus on small but important documents such as address books, Word documents, ICQ contact lists, etc. These are generally small enough to be saved to disk or emailed.
  
• Large and Valuable - f you have time, move on to larger items such as saved emails (I had about 50MB of email!), mp3 collections, photographs, etc. These generally have to be burned to CD or transfered to another computer on a local network.
  
• Other - Other useful items to save are those little programs that we have all downloaded from the internet that are a pain to find and install - it is especially handy if you still have them in zipped format.

For more see the direct link here

[ApPy10]

How to remove, replace or upgrade a laptop hard drive.

Instructions for the following notebook computers: Compaq, Dell, Gateway, HP (Hewlett Packard), IBM, Micron/MPC, Nec, Toshiba. Very detailed removal and installation guides in PDF format.

[Sawantji]

I think you need to look at this guide on removing a hard dist of a laptop!
Do according to this guide with your Toshiba M40X-185 laptop unless & until you are sure & confident enough to handle the manual operation on your own OR take help from a knowledgeable friend to help you for this!
http://www.fonerbooks.com/laptop_1.htm
I hope this helps you!