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I have two Acer Laptops, both "dead" One has a broken hard drive, but is otherwise fine(!). The other has a defective motherboard, the case and hinge on this one is also damaged. I wonder if it would be possible to put the two together as it were, to make one working laptop. Taking the hard drive from the one with the dead motherboard and damaged case, and putting it into the other. My local Big C up here in Chiang Rai has lots of little lock up stores, with fellows with soldering irons and screwdrivers beavering away fixing computers, tablets and phones. Does anyone know if what I am suggesting will be feasible?

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Feasible. Done it myself as well as using a laptop repair specialist in Tukcom, Pattaya. Hopefully someone will be able to point you in the direction of the hole-in-the-wall shop at Big C that can do the job.

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Why don't you just purchase and fit an SSD? Starting from perhaps around 750 baht. Mechanical hard disc drives are old and slow.

A solid state drive will make all of the difference and since you are going to open her up anyway, it's the perfect time to do it.

Some laptops have a dedicated hatch for the drive, so it can take as little as five minutes to swap the drives. No need to take it anywhere.

 

So begin with revealing the full model number that is written on the underside of the laptop.

 

From that we will know whether it is a simple job that you can do yourself or one that requires taking it to a specialist. 

 

 

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Replacing a hard drive is pretty easy if there is a little door on the underside of the laptop for this particular purpose.  May even be youtube vids showing you how.

On the other hand you may want to replace the broken hard drive with a new one of a greater capacity.  There may be some limitation on how large of a drive your particular model can handle if it's an older model.  You can salvage the hd from the other one, get an external USB case and use it for backups.

 

That said, my current laptop is an Asus with no little door, I'd have to pull off the whole bottom of the thing to get to the hd. 

 

 

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