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Can I install a kingston sdd and install windows 7 to it?How do I get to the Hdd?Also what is the advantage of having windows7?

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The HDD can be accessed/removed from the underside of the laptop. If you look at the bottom of the laptop, there is a rectangular panel in the corner (farthest away from the battery). Remove the screws holding the panel in place and lift up the panel. Underneath is the HDD. If you remove the wrong panel (the large odd shaped one), you will be looking at the two RAM modules.

You can certainly replace the old HDD on the Toshiba with an SSD. Windows 7 works very well with SSD's as you won't have to worry about installing drivers or any special garbage collection software, as these essential SSD features are already present in Windows 7. The most essential feature Windows 7 will offer for your Kingston SSD will be the TRIM command, this runs in the background and greatly improves the lifespan of your SSD (read more detailed info about this here).

Other advantages of Windows 7 is the improved security over previous versions of windows, and more importantly, no performance issues that plagued Windows Vista. Not to mention the thousands of applications available for Windows. There are of course, many visual features that are fun to play around with in Windows 7, but that's about as far as I will go to summarize the functionality.

Good luck and have fun, I installed a very similar Kingston 64gb SSD on my own laptop and I have yet to regret it (they are fast).

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