Replacing hard drive.

[Smurfsarepeopletoo]

Morning,

So i have an Acer Aspire R3 N15W5 notebook with 32gb flash memory, i was looking to change the hard drive for something a little bigger, however, after taking the back off, i cant see where it is, which makes me think its integrated into the motherboard.

Can someone confirm that, or if not, what im missing, thanks.

[parabolica]

Soldered to the MB apparently and unswappable: https://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2015/09/aspire-r11-r3-...

ETA does it have a card reader? If so the quickest solution would be to buy a high capacity SD card. Good luck.

[Smurfsarepeopletoo]

parabolica said:

Soldered to the MB apparently and unswappable: https://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2015/09/aspire-r11-r3-...

ETA does it have a card reader? If so the quickest solution would be to buy a high capacity SD card. Good luck.

Thanks, Have been using an SD card as well, but struggling to do updates now as there is only 4gb space, and cant clear anymore space, gonna look to see if I can install windows on the SD card, and have it boot from there.

[ArsE82]

Isn’t that a standard drive bay in grey? Pop an SSD in?

[parabolica]

ArsE82 said:

Isn’t that a standard drive bay in grey? Pop an SSD in?

He would need to source the connecting cables and having tried the same a month or two ago you quickly find out they aren’t easy to come buy and those you do are really expensive.

[xeny]

ArsE82 said:

Isn’t that a standard drive bay in grey? Pop an SSD in?

I followed the links from the first reply - you end up needing to solder connectors to the motherboard.

I've a Win 10 laptop with a 32 GB embedded flash drive. I accept that for every spring feature update it is a wipe and reinstall. Fortunately it only really gets used as an RDP client, with some web browsing, so that isn't too annoying.

[sgrimshaw]

Get a decent capacity SD card and mount it as a local drive in Windows.

https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager-software/...

[otherman]

Yeah, that's branded crap for you. always thinking they can corner you into buying a new one. Unbranded is best, using all generic parts. You can get a whooping big HDD for 40 quid. Just swap it for a second hand laptop with sensible parts. They hardly cost nothin'

[Smurfsarepeopletoo]

sgrimshaw said:

Get a decent capacity SD card and mount it as a local drive in Windows.

https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager-software/...

Already done that, but its not helping with the updates, as they need 8gb on the C: and windows is taking up 27gb.

[sgrimshaw]

Smurfsarepeopletoo said:

Already done that, but its not helping with the updates, as they need 8gb on the C: and windows is taking up 27gb.

Did you do method 2?

That will let you expand C:

[sgrimshaw]

You've tried the MS advice?

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-install-any-maj...

[Brian_996TT]

i just plug in another hard drive in the usb

[dalzo]

External ssd would do the job or again a high memory sd card. Both can be picked up for relative buttons