Hi I'm SelmaTeacher7, also known as Mr. Berry by my students! Today in this
mini lesson I am going over how to upgrade an Acer Chromebook 15 model number of CBS 571
It's hard drive. So upgrade the hard drive, but unfortunately you can't upgrade the
memory that's soldered on. But you can actually removed the M.2 s SSD card and put a
larger capacity one in. So let's get started with a mini-lesson! Now in order
to keep track of all the screws I recommend some tape that's been rolled
around so you can put the screws on to and you'll just need a small Phillips
screwdriver now this one here is magnetic key on this you want to turn it
off so open it up and then hold the power button until it all goes off close
the case again and then flip it upside down
and we cannot remove the battery this is an internal battery or we can do is
remove these screws so we're going to do that right now
by the way removing these screws and opening up back to the case does void
your warranty
you know once you have all the screws out you can now open up the back and you
start opposite of the hinge so here's the hinge that means I'll start opening
up from here
notice how big my finger
just using just like finger down what five is open right there there we go
and it opens right away the first time I had this laptop open
you
you're working you pull this side open first is the power connection is here
and also the audio jacks here which caused to be hard to pull out in this
light so you have to for this side up and then bring it out that way there you
go and here it is
now in here we have the CPU cooler with fan this is your n dot - hard drive this
is the Wi-Fi this is the solder dog memory the audience am unfortunate its
that the memory is soldered on so I cannot upgrade the memory this is the
video going out to my display these are the speakers and this is the battery so
let's say that the battery was to go dead and not work very well I can find
another replacement battery this battery is called the AC one for b8 k as the
model number on the battery so if I wanted to find a replacement on eBay
I could do that and then have a new battery in there again now on this video
for upgrading this part right here so remove this one screw
this lifts up and then comes right out and this is M Kim dot - solid state
drive here's the replacement SSD and you can find that on Newegg it's right in
there you take the screw
there you go so now you've upgraded the hard drive from the 16 gig that it had
before to whatever size you wanted if you wanted to put a 64 or 128 whatever
your budget is what you can do now the back cover goes on the same way as you
took it off so remember these parts right here have to go through these
homes that we have right here and since then these parts have to go through
these hoes if you that first so we pull it over
Norrell break this thing
and then again start from that hinge and then work your way towards the front
exactly in reverse order as you did to take it off now I'm going to do is I'm
not going to reinstall the screws just yet I'll make sure everything's going to
work properly and we're sure you also have to install
the operating system so is what we're going to do we flip it over and when we
turn on the unit and it should give us a message to reinstall the operating
system there we go that's the message says Chrome OS is missing or damaged
please insert Recovery USB stick or sdcard and then it gives you the actual
URL address there and the model that you go to to find the Chrome OS so you do
need to write that down for your particular model this would be different
than than what you see here and then you'd go to that address which is Google
comm four slash Chrome OS four slash recovery
you so we've gone to a computer that's on
the internet here and then to see that picture that you've taken just go to the
Google Apps and Google photos and it should be the very last picture there it
is so go ahead and click on that and that's
the address that I have to key in up here and also I have to type in that
model number so go to a new tab type in HTTP and there it is Chrome OS recovery
so now here we are and there are directions here on how to get your your
operating system back on a new hard drive
so what we're going to do is follow these directions is what you need to do
to recover your Chromebook on a working computer that's what we're doing off the
Chromebook for the air obviously install the recovery app which I have done
already and there it is it takes you right to it if you didn't have it it
would say add to Chrome I've already added it because I worked on the law
different Chromebooks so just click on launch the app and what you need is a
four gig or a larger USB stick and put that into your USB port make sure that
it's nothing that you don't mind erasing all the way so I've inserted a USB flash
drive into the USB port and now I can click on get started and now this is
where you type in that model that you saw over here so it's waiting for me to
copy and paste that I will do that now
you just click out here I think you know
eg 5-3 a - d 4q - a 3/8
okay now it comes up as just found a match with the exact model name and says
you must have an Acer Chromebook 15 which is true now click on continue and
then you're going to select which USB Drive you want this is the correct one
when you say continue this is report all data and petitions on your curbing media
will be deleted you say create now
okay if your computer asks you say yes
and what it's doing now is it's writing all of the data right onto your flash
drive and setting it up and the bootable device for your Chromebook
by the way I might want to add it's not just the offering system that's all the
drivers that pertain to the specific hardware on that specific Chromebook now
after it's done writing it will verify that the information is correct on that
flash drive
okay it's been successful now what you want to do is click on done and then
remove the jump drive from the USB port and set it up inside the Chromebook and
I'll show you that right now
so take the flash drive that has the recovery operating system on it
total Google and plug it in
because you're about to recover your computer please make sure is plugged
into a power source now what it's doing is it says it's verifying the integrity
of the recovery media
as his system recovery is in progress this will take a few minutes please do
not turn off your computer or disconnect it from power
now if the system recovery is complete please remove the recovery media that go
system will restart here's the Chrome splash screen and there you go this is
like a brand new machine now so if asking you the language which is English
the area us and then the network click on there and you choose your Wi-Fi
network that you want to use and you put in your password or your Wi-Fi network
and then continue right here is just a little license you just say accept and
continue
then you put in your email address and then say next and then put your password
after putting in your password connect next there you go now what's it doing
now is it synchronizing and it's installing all of your apps so pretty
soon you should be there you go you should stop to see some of your apps
down here also if you click on the app launcher right here there's the apps
you've used left on your other machine go all apps there you can actually see
them being installed right now and more on coming down the pike right now that's
why you see these squares growing here we give that some time
pushing you it's only apps and if we go over here to your app go to photos there
you go and there's a picture I took of the screen earlier and this is the
screenshot of the system information where it shows that usually a 15 gig
drive it's like minute you type in Chrome colon slash slash system and that
gives you to your get you to your system properties and then just simply go down
to storage expand and right here it says 16 gigs and then I took a picture
already
now this is the new system here the same thing pull pull slash slash system go
down to storage this time it shows 32 gigabytes so that's the new drive that I
just put in so you know how to do everything now from upgrading the SSD
drive in your Chromebook to installing or recovering the operating system and
all your apps ok now that you know that everything is working properly in the
machine you may close it flip it upside down and then reattach the screws
you
now that you have all the screws in place
you open it back up again well it works great in fact it works so well I'm doing
the video right now on that same machine okay and as always please rate comment
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