How To Replace Upgrade HDD (Hard Drive) & RAM - Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Laptop 

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"Yeah, I'll change your drive na add RAM, it should be easy" - that's what I said to my friend. I didn't think it would be so difficult :) thanks to your vid I've somehow managed to do it :) thanks!

Thank you. Saved me from breaking a clients laptop. Started taking it apart and had to "good thing I watched the video first"😂 ALWAYS WATCH A TAKING APART TUTORIAL FIRST !

The tip on pulling the keyboard totally saved me from trouble. Thanks immensely.!

Cheers mate! I changed my hard drive following your video and it has worked wonderfully!

This information is worth an ounce of gold. The wife's Inspiron, same model, has been excruciatingly slow. I think this video will be of great help for this 77 yr old do-it-yourselfer. Thank you PC Monkey

I suggest removing the battery first (when possible) before ever opening up and disconnecting anything from the internals of a laptop. Then before proceeding any further, hold down the power button for a good 10-15 seconds to drain and residual power from the system.

I needed to take the hard drive out of this computer so I can recycle it. I could never have done it without this video. Your step-by-step instructions were so easy to follow. Thank you so much.

Dude, you make this sound and look so easy...I got to change the RAM for a client's i3 (yeah I thought they were i5s) Inspiron 3558 - and never have I had to open a laptop up before to change RAM - damn you, Dell...why couldn't you keep an access door for the RAM!!! Thanks a ton to you for this video, from London, England :-)

Great video thanks so much for posting - I've done this a few times already and needed a quick reminder on the steps so this was super helpful - one piece of advice for newbies I would recommend however - before you screw in the base as shown in the video, flip over the laptop and make sure the ribbon is all the way through and easily accessible and properly attached - so pop everything back together and attach the keyboard etc and then attach the battery and power on and verify that your ribbons are properly attached as its a huge pain to discover something is not connected properly and then have to unscrew it all and fix. Obviously be very very careful using the laptop while it is not screwed together, then when you know it is working screw it all back in place and you are good to go. Thanks again PC Monkey!

Great video! The old hard drive stopped working and I upgraded to SSD. It runs faster now. Those ribbon cables are so small and fragile. Thanks for all the good information!

i learned more in this 11: 27 video than all the wasted hours watching crummy shabby bogus info. videos on the same subject , Thank you X's 100 !!!

This video was a great help. The Dell manual says nothing about taking out the keyboard first. It really helped me replace the HD to an SSD and RAM from 8GB to 16GB. It does recognize the new memory and SSD It doesn't look like it is performing any better on the first startup, but I will use it for a while an update this post.

Excellent video. I wanted to remove the hard drive before recycling this model. I got about halfway on my own when I decided to look it up. Saved me time and from resorting to a hammer to get at it!

Thank you very much, helped me to replace the SSD without damaging the laptop

followed this not soo easy but done. i broke at rotating end of case but not that much visible so i am happy. For newbeis starting be careful. Don't try with new laptop. Tutorial was great and helpful.

This is the best vid on this I found for my Dell, may be because it is in english. The others do not even have text as to why the keyboard has to come off. Some people seem to replace the drive without cloning which seems strange , if you were not setup with a usb to install Windows from. You can get a "toaster" (10-$20) to put the old drive in to read off old files , or clone the old drive onto the new drive thru a usb port.

This helped me a lot. Thank you very much, you're a Godsent.....I was struggling to open the back corner near the cd-rom. Your video saved the day.

Thank you x 10! I have the same laptop that you're using in this demonstration. Bitlocker locked my HDD or partition. I could not boot into Win 10. I was able to get bitlocker recovery key, but I had no record of the password. Regardless of inputting that 48 digit key I could not boot into windows. I could not disable bitlocker on that drive/partition. A tech aquaintance suggested replacing hdd. This vid gave me the knowledge and courage to do so. However, at one point I thought I had fried my mother board. And I followed the steps in pc monkey vids on what to do if machine turns on the off...steps for discharging static charge and for resetting bios. Things didn't get righted until bios reset step. At that point the laptop started to have some response but I had a black screen. Then I listened to pc monkey vid on what to do if you have a black screen. That's when it all started to come together. I had popped my ram card out during the 1st video,this video, to get the info off of it incase I wanted to add more ram later. I did not re-seat the ram card properly. Ounce I did that I was able to reinstall windows 10. I wolud have never been able to do this and recover from my own ineptness, misstake, without pc monkey. I'm going back to all the pc monkey videos I viewed to get me back up and running and give each a thumbs up. The videos are practical, instructional and to the point. Thanks for not adding unnecessary stuff that make vids un-necessarily longer than needed. Big fan an new subcriber! P.S. Does PC Monkey have instruction on my original problem saving my data and wiping my old hdd. I can't at this point save data or wipe the drive because of the locked partition. I tried connecting drive via sata to usb. Drive not showing in 'this pc' or disk management.

Thank you so much. I just replaced my old hard drive for a SSD.

Man your video are helpfull , i managed to save money by installing hard drive and windows alone

A most excellent instruction video. Thank you!

super easy to follow thank you so much :)

Very thanks man , you saved me a lot of money .

Thanks for this video. Helped me get to my hard drive.

Thank you for the video. Was able to follow right along.

Thanks you saved my bacon. Upgraded to 8GB and a Crutial SSD.

Good tutorial. Thanks.

I have the Dell Inspiron 15 3000 series but I couldn’t get the back cover off after taking off the keyboard etc. My back cover had a partition that’s held in by a screw so out of curiosity I unscrewed it and removed the panel. This was the HDD and RAM panel so I didn’t have to remove the keyboard and DVD after all. I guess that the 3000 series has other models. Great video by the way. I now know what to look out for when doing future upgrades.

I normally just rip off the backcase so this was helpful to know

Very Useful

Thank you for this video. It was extremely well done.

THANK YOU SIR, YOU ARE SO GREAT, AGAIN TANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR.

Complimenti per il video ,sei stato chiaro e preciso. Grazie

A Soft aluminium can from a soft drink cut to size and folded double makes for a temporary pry tool for removing clips. kinda

Thanks man❤

Thank you for actually making it clear how to detach the keyboard properly!

I have an inspiron 15- 3552 and I purchased the ram to upgrade to an 8gb. I'm nervous about tearing into it bc im afraid I won't be able to get something back together right. I tried taking the back off last night and wasnt able to get the screw out that's holding in the cd drive. Thank you for this video I'm going to try again in the morning crossing my fingers it goes smoothly!

Thank you very much. first time and subscribe good video .

Very useful !! Thanks a lot!

I am watching this video in my Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series laptop. Inshallah I will update the RAM and replace ssd into HDD and put the HDD into Cady in DVD drive. I am watching this video from Bangkadesh

Can you recommend a tool get? Great video. Looking at replacing my hard drive with ssd. Thanks.

thanks. Your video helped me a lot today.

Great video. Thanks so much.

Thank you boss!!! Amazingly done!

Very much appreciated!

Excellent presentation

Thank you a lot for this perfect technical informstion

Watch for the clear plastic power light prism becoming loose. It snaps in the center front of the laptop.

Great video, Well explained. Thank you!

Well Done! Great work

I have an Inspiron 3542 and all you have to do is remove one screw to access the hard drive and memory. I advice you check your model it seems they are not all the same.. I used this video and removed all the screws and keyboard before realizing .. it was much easier than what is illustrated here.

Thank you very much, Help me a lot to change the normal hard with SSD ! ;)

Hello, thank you so much for your very helpful informational video, I have a couple of questions, though. if you don't mind. mine is a SSD hard drive, I believe same as your video. my question is, do I need to reprogram once I buy the new bigger one? this would be my first time doing it so do I need to store the software, or how do I transfer the system files to it? and if is not too much to ask , which SSD drive would you recommend buying? thank you!!

A to Z great video thanks

Hi, from that laptop since i have the same, what will you recommend from these: RAM: 2X16gb 2400mhz - crucial - samsung - kingston fury * is the RAM mhz cannot be exceeded to 3200mhz? M.2 - kingston NV1 NVMe PCIe SSD - Samsung 970 evo plus Thanks much

Thanks for the vid btw, could probably have done this on my acer by trial and looking. No way would have thought this out as non technical person

Thank you

Appreciate this so much!

Thanks. This will help when I will replace my hard drive. Any recommended places that can recover pictures from a broken hard drive?

Is the reason for removing the keyboard to disconnect that small ribbon cable?

Thanks a lot

GREAT! After watching this I feel ready to "reseat" my hard drive. At least how to get to it. Thank you I have an (OLD) Dell Inspiron 1545Pentium Dual core CPU T4200@ 2.00 gb ghz memory4.00 gb SYSTEM 84 BFF DS HOPE THIS WILL HELP ME

Thanks bro

My hard drive is coming tomorrow and I’m looking forward to watching this tutorial so many thanks. 🙏 😊 Do you know if the processor on Dell Inspiron 15 3552 is replaceable?

I want to know if the cpu can be updated n what's the correct cpu I want to upgrade May dell inspiron 15 3000 for music production

Can you add an ssd there ? Thanks for the video, very helpful.

Thank you very much!! This video helped me a lot :)

What kind of tool did you use to take the keyboard out, and where can I buy one from. Nice video thanks for sharing. #PEACE✌🏾

Is there seperate slot for SSD in the (inspiron 15 3000) laptop? Dell site lists 3 disks including the DVD.

thanks for this video.

My computer is completely busted but I need the files on it so I planned on taking it apart and using an enclosure to hook the hard drive onto my new laptop but I don’t know what enclosure type to get. The old laptop is a Dell Inspection 15 3000, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

hi, could you tell me what size the screwdriver is that you used? also your video was very clear and will be helpful soon! thanks

Should my laptop have 2 RAMs like yours did or is just one in the A slot ok? This is the first time I took my laptop apart and I only have 1 inside.

Thanks PC. My i7 acts like a Pentium III, it's just a slug, so assume it's not an SSD drive. I've replaced my SSD drives twice in my desktop and it comes with software to transfer the C drive data via a USB cable to the new drive. So the question is how do you do that with a laptop? I've got 3 USB outs and an HDMI port too. Thanks in advance.

Thank you I found this. Very helpful. I followed your steps but once I powered my computer on now I get the message ‘no bootable device available’. What could have possibly gone wrong or what did I miss?

does it support 500gb ssd and above?

Still need to make new HD work.. my son has a 200gb and wanted to see if possible to transfer everything from old drive.. pre loaded windows do no disk or code

I have a 2009 Dell Inspiron 1750, purchased a hard drive off of Amazon they say it has blank so it's saying no hard drive detected on the laptop. So what do I need to do to make the laptop functional?? Need help ASAP thank you.

Does this laptop have a spot for an M.2 storage?

Thanku ❤❤❤❤

Hey I had a drive from my dad's old dell inspiron 15 3000 but it has serotonin software to stop u from using it in another kind of labtop how can I take it off

Hello Sir, Thanks for sharing this video I have Same Laptop inspiron 15 3000- Intel R Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz 1.80 with RAM 4 GB Can I upgrade it with 8 GB and what RAM model you advise me to buy from market/ Amazon Regards,

How do i unscrew a stripped screw that literally holds the cd drive

Does this laptop have m.2 slot or I have to install 2.5 inch ssd. Kindly help as I want to know before opening my laptop so that I can order the same from Amazon

Thanks that was very helpful ! Do you know if I can add a Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD in it? Thanks in advance !

Do new hard drive come preloaded or does one need to reload everything? I know nothing on repairing a computer. Just bought a new laptop to replace the one that suddenly said hard drive not installed after 11 years. I can play with this one.

I did everything you did in this video! There were a couple of things I want to run by you. The little plastic piece that’s at the bottom kinda free floating, is that normal? When I opened the back, there was no DDR4 DIMM B card, there should be one right?

What kinda hard drives are compatible with this?

hey ! is not the Vostro 15 3000 on the explanation !!! but the Vistro 15 3578 NO BATTERY & NO KEYBOARD can be remove of the VOSTRO 15 3000

Supero super. Why should we remove 3 screws from palm rest.can we do away with it. Just remove the 2 cables alone..am i right or wrong.no need to to remove screws from palm rest i think.is it right or wrong Pl advise immediately

This is my same computer.It shutdown while playing.Till now it doesn't open .When i charge the light blink and when i press the power button nothing happens even the fan doesn't work (sound).BEFORE 3,4 week i tried to start but the same thing happen and suddenly yellow light blink faster and disappear.👀

i just took out the hard drive blew on it and it worked

Thanks

Hi I have Dell inspiron 15 3565 with AMD processor and GPU and i already upgraded the ram from 4 Gb to 8Gb also i added SSD Hard with HDD hard instead DVD to make it more faster to use it in graphic apps like PS and AE but the problem is that After Effect need NVIDIA GPU for some projects and i wonder if that possible to replace AMD GPU with NVIDIA GPU plz give solution for that problem cuz i googled a lot and i couldn't find specific answer for my question THX ALOT

hey, but isnt using magnetized screwdrivers compromise the data in my hard disk drive?

Tks mate

Great video, but I wish you did an extreme close-up of flipping the keyboard connector up and also the prying of the case. My laptop doesn't have the smaller ribbon cable which is probably for the DVD drive, which mine doesn't have. I'm wondering if I really need to remove the keyboard just to access my HDD since I don't have the smaller ribbon cable. I was able to do after, after unscrewing the 5 screws underneath the keyboard. Started prying at the DVD drive space.

I have the same laptop, if I want to upgrade ram, should I buy Dell ram, or I can buy any any brand?

Is there any way of putting the keyboard ribbon cable back in. I'm having trouble with this part. I was able to successfully pull it out, but can't put it back in.