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Question posted by hsherbsheridan on January 30th, 2015

Hard Drive Swap

can you replace hard drive in A205 with hard drive from M45?

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Answer #1: Posted by techyagent on January 30th, 2015 9:53 PM

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this is not impossible you canj swap this u have to only know that both have sata hardrives and sata ports available on the board.

Change the drive but they make some incompatabilities u have to reinstall os in drive c . this make the harddrive working so much fine.

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