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hey guys it's brandon minimun from TechnoBuffalo and in this video we're going to install a solid-state drive inside of this asus you all 30 VT I haven't even turned this on yet and from the start I want to put in the solid state drive put windows7 back on and really start from the beginning hopefully with not too many issues programs so i can have a really lean and light and fast system for this i'm using the intel x25-m solid-state drive it's 80 gigabytes solid-state drives aren't quite cheap enough yet to where everyone can get them in to where they are included in all the new laptops they're just not cheap enough yet this solid state drive cost three hundred dollars on newegg they go as low as about 250 although you can get other brands other than intel for about 150 actually right now but the intel x25-m is revered as one of the best values for solid-state drives they're extremely fast I'm actually running one of these in my desktop computer and the result of that is that programs open a lot faster especially programs that i have in hibernation like photoshop where my video editing software the process of transferring data from your hard drive to your ram is just so much faster when you're running a solid-state drive so let's get started we're going to start by turning over the laptop taking out the old drive which is actually easy or at least it should be easy so let's sort of position it and i'll point the camera downward so if you're on the back we have the slot for the hard drive back here and over here this is where the ram goes and so i'm going to take out the battery just so that this device is no power going to it see we slide that over and there we go batteries out there's a safety precaution and we're going to take out these little screws i have never actually done this process i've installed a laptop hard drive before but never a solid-state drive so you're learning along with me here alright and i'm going to lift this up and in here somewhere is the hard drive although i want to be careful not to break anything looks like there's a tab here let's see I don't want to snap anything off yep it just kind of unseats itself very quickly so this is what the old hard drive look like seagate 5400 RPM 500 gigabytes let's take a look at the new solid state drive and kind of compare the two but hopefully this fits right in they're the same size hard drive it's really should just plug right in so here it is already opened it before now it's got these brackets on it I don't know if I need to leave those brackets on I think I do if you actually compare the size you need the brackets to make it the same size as the standard hard drive so I should be able to just sort of slide it in looks like it goes this way be very careful okay I think that'll do it it looks like there could be some screws I need to secure let me pop that out again what I'm going to do is actually take out the tray here because I see that it will have some wiggle room if I don't do that and I don't want it to to move around so I'm gonna kind of take this off okay and then the old hard drive slides right out and we are going to put the new hard drive in and the screw holes line up perfectly so I'll put all these screws right in okay so we have the solid state drive seated inside of the little tray so now it should slide in and fit a lot better than before sort of move these wires and push it up there we go there it goes looks good let's put the the lid back on for the hard drive okay and we put the battery back in and then because the asus UL 30 BTW doesn't have an optical drive i'm going to attach an external USB 2.0 derive so that we can get windows seven on to this okay now we've got a load on windows 7 and I've connected an external drive because the asus doesn't have a an optical drive built-in so it's a little bit crude back there but it works now I'm not going to use at least right away the windows seven recovery disk from a sous because this will install all of the programs from a sous I want a squeaky clean installation so I'm going to try using a windows seven disk that I've used before and I'm thinking that it probably won't work because I've already used a license but perhaps I can get by with using the license on the bottom of the asus so this may not be so cut and dry but we're going to try to see what happens when we load this version up so let's open up open up the laptop and it's already showing something on the screen that I was trying before so I'm going to ctrl delete it and try to force it to reboot so I'll do a press and hold the power button all right let's see what happens again I may just have to revert back to the windows seven recovery disk from Asus if this doesn't work which would not be too big of a deal so hopefully it will boot from the CD which it is that's good accept the terms so we're going to go with custom and this is unallocated space this is the solid state drive i'm going to go to drive options i'm going to format this by ken or actually first i have to create a new partition i'll use the entire size windows my create additional partitions okay and system reserved of 100 megabytes and we're going to format this partition here so we can clean it off and make it ready for for installation and it looks like it is ready so i'm going to go to next and it's doing something so we'll be back and see if it I if it actually worked and we're back that was about 30 minutes so pretty fast so i'm going to type my name here and i think it's going to ask me for a CD key soon so password so i'll just type the password and click on password hint required so hint there we go product key so I'm going to start by typing the product key from the bottom of the asus i don't know if this is going to work because this is a 32-bit that i just installed and the demand the laptop comes with 64-bit i figure that for what i'm going to be using the laptop for i really don't need the extra benefits of 64 bit i'm not going to be doing that much HD video rendering that much you know photomanipulation things like that so let me type in the for the product key and the key worked which is good news i'm going to use ask me later for windows update finalizing your settings so this may actually have worked so here we are in windows 7 coming up soon we're gonna have more videos about the hardware on the asus UL 30 VT we're also going to talk about how fast it is how the performance is with the solid state drive and some other things relating to keyboard usage and battery life and things like that we'll be back soon with much more that's it for now