Toshiba Satellite Upgrade

Explorer87

OnlyTheBestWillDo said:

Explorer87 said:

Hi 

So I've got an older Toshiba Satellite C50D-xxxx, it's been doing well but has been slowing down slowly. 

I've not exactly got he cash for a new laptop but need to keep it up to speed. I run defrag and disk clean up, it always gets up dated, it also has Ccleaner. All my files are stored on dropbox and one drive. Are there any other programs I could use?

In terms of physical hardware is it easy to put a new RAM board in? I don't need to spend ages installing it?


Thanks 

Is there a good reason why you decided to only post part of the model number?

SSD, as aforementioned, is the solution; not RAM.

Likelihood is that you purchased a laptop with a pitiful AMD E1 CPU. SSD is the only way forward. As illustrated by the video above, the physical swap is very simple, even for a novice, taking no more than a few minutes.

You can retrieve your program product keys in advance in so you can reinstall them afterwards. https://www.belarc.com/products_belarc_advisor
Of course if you are feeling lazy and don't want to get the best out of the laptop, you can clone the old HDD to the new SSD; but it isn't the recommended path in your case.

I wasn’t sure if the full model number mattered. 

Explorer87

grumpycrab said:

Explorer87 said:

Yeah might need my hand holding for that bit. What about all the programs like office that ive bought and dont have product keys for? Will they get transferred over?

Office won't get transferred over unless its Office 365.  key finder as above but then you'll need the office program itself; any other programs you might have trouble installing from scratch?

Cloning is another option but a little more difficult and you may need a bigger SSD.  How much space is USED on your C: drive?

C drive is barely used, most of my files as I said are on a cloud system. 

OnlyTheBestWillDo

Explorer87 said:

OnlyTheBestWillDo said:

Explorer87 said:

Hi 

So I've got an older Toshiba Satellite C50D-xxxx, it's been doing well but has been slowing down slowly. 

I've not exactly got he cash for a new laptop but need to keep it up to speed. I run defrag and disk clean up, it always gets up dated, it also has Ccleaner. All my files are stored on dropbox and one drive. Are there any other programs I could use?

In terms of physical hardware is it easy to put a new RAM board in? I don't need to spend ages installing it?


Thanks 

Is there a good reason why you decided to only post part of the model number?

SSD, as aforementioned, is the solution; not RAM.

Likelihood is that you purchased a laptop with a pitiful AMD E1 CPU. SSD is the only way forward. As illustrated by the video above, the physical swap is very simple, even for a novice, taking no more than a few minutes.

You can retrieve your program product keys in advance in so you can reinstall them afterwards. https://www.belarc.com/products_belarc_advisor
Of course if you are feeling lazy and don't want to get the best out of the laptop, you can clone the old HDD to the new SSD; but it isn't the recommended path in your case.

I wasn’t sure if the full model number mattered. 

...and yet you still haven't posted it. Never mind.

Devlin1976

Download minitool Partition wizard and copy the HDD onto a new ssd,simple enough to do and you don't lose anything.

Explorer87

OnlyTheBestWillDo said:

Explorer87 said:

OnlyTheBestWillDo said:

Explorer87 said:

Hi 

So I've got an older Toshiba Satellite C50D-xxxx, it's been doing well but has been slowing down slowly. 

I've not exactly got he cash for a new laptop but need to keep it up to speed. I run defrag and disk clean up, it always gets up dated, it also has Ccleaner. All my files are stored on dropbox and one drive. Are there any other programs I could use?

In terms of physical hardware is it easy to put a new RAM board in? I don't need to spend ages installing it?


Thanks 

Is there a good reason why you decided to only post part of the model number?

SSD, as aforementioned, is the solution; not RAM.

Likelihood is that you purchased a laptop with a pitiful AMD E1 CPU. SSD is the only way forward. As illustrated by the video above, the physical swap is very simple, even for a novice, taking no more than a few minutes.

You can retrieve your program product keys in advance in so you can reinstall them afterwards. https://www.belarc.com/products_belarc_advisor
Of course if you are feeling lazy and don't want to get the best out of the laptop, you can clone the old HDD to the new SSD; but it isn't the recommended path in your case.

I wasn’t sure if the full model number mattered. 

...and yet you still haven't posted it. Never mind.

C50D-B-120