Ubuntu upgrade

[Bill Taylor]

Dan,
I worked at restoring desk tops for youth in and out of the Church for a 
number of years and, silly as it was  I refused to restore any lap tops 
because they would be so hard to work on.  Then one company donated 
their entire System, Server, 7 desktops with flat screens and seven 
laptops if I would wipe the data.

Of course I used the free DBAN and cleaned all of them without much 
effort, they avoided a $1500 charge and fifteen young people received 
computers with the key board and mouse being all we purchased.

These laptops were HP units and two needed a hard drive, and I had spare 
2.5 units.  I found all the info on the web and on every unit since it 
is usually two screws to remove and two to four to unmount from the 
slide.  Just be sure to purchase a magnetic 00 guage Phillips and you 
will be good to go.

On 8/30/2014 9:46 PM, Michael Jarvis wrote:
> Good luck, Dan.
>
> Replacing a laptop hard drive might not be as hard as you think,
> depending on what make/model laptop you're using. I can't speak for
> all laptops, but it's been my experience that accessing the hard drive
> and memory is relatively straightforward if you have the instructions.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 04:03:21PM -0500, Dan Healy wrote:
>> Thank you very much for the ideas.  I am not a linux guru and will have to
>> do some research before I try any of them.  I am working with a laptop so
>> replacing the hard drive doesn't seem practical.  At least I have some time
>> to educate myself.
>>
>> Dan H