Lenovo B50-50 - How to change or upgrade the hard disk
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How to change or upgrade the hard disk or access the RAM and bios battery on a Lenovo B50-50 (Model 80S2) laptop.
The procedure takes at least 16 minutes, probably longer if you are new to opening up laptops. This video shows you how to remove the keyboard, battery connection and lower cover to access the motherboard, hard disk, bios battery and RAM.
This is the first mainstream PC I've come across that doesn't have a user changeable or removable battery!
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Why, when I want to do any jobs like this one, do I ALWAYS look for a British guy to cut to the chase and take me through the work in a quiet workman like manner. No 'Hi guys, what's up guys' just a calm confident voice. Many thanks.
No problem..
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Absolutely superb video. Very well filmed and put together. What an absolute pain this laptop is. I have dismantled some tricky laptops in my time, but this one is awful. I did decide to gently warm the keyboard area with a heat gun (very carefully and from a good distance) to try and loosen the glue slightly. I am not sure how much it helped, but its something to consider. I needed to replace the battery on this one and found that the connector on the replacement did not want to go back in the socket. In the end I plugged and unplugged the old one a few times to try to loosen the socket up a little, and then plugged the new battery in directly, (ie before reassembly) a few times until it would go in smoothly. Thanks for making the video, its one of the best laptop disassembly videos I have ever seen.
I'm so pleased you found it helpful and well made. Thanks for letting me know.
Seven years after, it helped me to repair the computer of a friend.
Thanks ! ;)
Worrying how time moves on! I remember buying these machines and installing them. Some are still in use today!
Thanks for this video. I am an IT-tech myself and did not actually spend any time on the B50-50 after seeing this video (was just upgrading my kids old computers today). Just finished they B50 and that was a completely other computer! Shocked about how different the B50 and the B50-50 was. I bought these two computers a year apart. Have opened many computers, the only one that was almost this bad was one of the old Fujitsu models.
you've helped one of my pupils to get his computer fixed up. many thanks! now to get the drive cloned - will be difficult as it seems something on the partition is propietary.
Glad it helped. Macrium reflect is the easy way to clone but once cloned you might need to use the macrium rescue usb to repair boot issues. Or install windows from fresh and copy over your old data from the old drive manually.
Many thanks for your excellent vid. Why is it I trust the UK guys on these technical tuts over the Yanks with their 'Yo Bro what up' and asking if I'm having a great day? Just get on with it as this guy has done. Nice and calm and intuitive.
Thanks :)
Thanks man! Saved me a lot of trouble today! That case is a nightmare. Harddisk and RAM should be easily accessable.
My pleasure glad it helped - if you wouldn't mind it would help me loads if you could subscribe :D (You can ignore all my future videos but the sub would really help, thanks!).
Thanks for this as I was given one of these to repair and although I've been repairing laptops for years, this one baffled me at first. I have never seen such a poorly designed machine for accessibility. Stripping out the keyboard and removing the case to change a battery !!! ... I'm truly cured of Lenovo forever. Cheers for your video though, it helped greatly.
+Bob Clay +Bob Clay no problems. The V110 is bad too. The bulkier more enterprise Lenovos are still good and easy to maintain and repair.
You're a lifesaver. Everything went smoothly, thank you so much.
Thanks for the thanks :)
The best video i have seen, you speak only the necesary yo explain all the process. Thanks from Spain.
Thank you so much for your comment. It is good to know when I've helped people.
Excellent work. Clear visuals and precise helpful audio commentary. Thank you :)
Glad you found it helpful enough to comment and thank me :)
Glad I watched this with the keyboard glue - much appreciated :-))
This is really helpful thanks! - Of all the Lenovo laptop models I have ever worked on this has to be the biggest pain. Also having to remove the best part of 20 screws to upgrade the ram / hard disk is a joke. Why is the battery not removable with out dismantling the whole thing!
Glad it was of use. I made the video because I also found it painful to work out how to get into the machine. Additionally the service manual that comes up when you Google doesn't actually match the machine that I had!
Not sure I would buy these machines again.. unimpressed with the power socket / connector too, looks very easy to break.
Top video thank you - don't you just love the screws under the keyboard faff - I took the screw out underneath then tried to pull the dvd drive out and broke the front plate off it as the screw underneath in the normal place wasn't holding the drive in!! All done and upgraded now thanks again for great tutorial
The B50-50 is the most insane laptop I've ever had to open up. HP have made some bad machines but this Lenovo is terrible for serviceability.
Very helpful! I strip many laptops in our shop but was doubtful about the rigid keyboard (is there a hidden screw?, I thought) until I saw the semi-adhesive strips in your video. I find an old credit card splits the case effectively, and it helped unstick the keyboard, too. I checked the fan/heatsink, just 2+2 screws to undo, and removed a whopping dust plug from the fan/radiator interface (this lady needs to hoover more!) so do look while you're there. I used fresh heatsink paste but there was enough original overspill to redistribute at a pinch. The duff hard drive was evidenced by repeated boot-looping as the unhappy BIOS sought a network boot. Using a Linux-loaded USB flash drive, I booted straight to Linux desktop and confirmed the Toshiba drive wasn't mountable. It later proved u/s, so an SSD went in. The original RAM is a measly 4GB in the one slot-I popped in an 8GB instead. An SSD, and more RAM, noticeably brighten this i3's performance.
Thanks very much for this. Excellent video and very clear and precise instructions. Would have been lost without it and ended up with a broken lap top. Thanks again 👍🏼
I am glad it helped and thank you for saying thanks
nice one! Great video! Before i looked i couldn't figure out why the back cover wouldn't come off!! Not sure why they made it so complicated!
So people can't be bothered to repair it if it goes wrong :D ?
Thank you, i really needed this.
:) they are old machines but still worth using with an SSD :)
Thanks for this. I've opened hundreds of laptops, but couldn't work out why the keyboard wasn't coming off. Screws and plastic welds im used to, but tape strips? Ugh.
I had to upgrade 60 of these, it was very tedious. Not as tedious as the newer HP laptops where they hide the screws under the rubber strips though!
Thank you, I have one brand new right here and I'm going to send it back to the dealer. And to remove Lenovo from my list. I heard that Asus have welded their DIMMs so the list is going to be short.
+FRANCOIS PIGNON correct about the Asus thing. Saw a machine like it yesterday.
You saved my life toniiiiiight!!!!
Thanks for making this, man this is a stupid design. Upgrading the harddrive shouldn't be this hard, or void the warranty... Anyhoo, thanks again for making this video!
Thanks a lot friend!
Thank you for saying so :)
Thank you very much! It's super!!!
Thanks, very easy with your help :-)
Glad to have helped and thanks for leaving a comment :)
Thanks for the video but what exact type of screwdriver do you use? I have trouble removing the screws
It was just a cheap tool set (as both of the ones I've had over the last 20 years have been) from a petrol station.. Lots of different types of screwdriver within it and I pick the most suitable screwdriver at the time.
Something a bit like this: m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81DZ6y0U1dL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
Neither have cost more than about £15 / £20 :D They are poor quality but ones I'm happy carry around with me and getting wet, rusty and potentially losing or forgetting them somewhere them occasionally.
Hi, thanks for video. So if i don't remove the keyboard i can't open laptop ?
You need to remove the keyboard.
Your video'll help me to change the battery but I have one question:
Is there an extra slot for add other 4gb of RAM? Or the only way is change the 4gb and put 8gb?
It has just the one RAM slot. To be sure or to know which RAM to get I would use www.crucial.com system scanner.
Hey, Great Video!! However, I just cant seem to get the keyboard to go back in the hinge connector. its lined up straight and all the way in as far as it can go but still it wont clip shut. What can I do ? Thanks
do i have to remove keyboard too or not needed to open?
I've just dismantled one of these due to a failing HDD... it's by no doubt the cheapest, nastiest laptop I've ever come across... it's obviously been designed as a cheap disposable device!
P.S. Regularly check all the screws on the base are all tight as they like to come loose and fall out, especially the ones that secure the screen hinges.
So to remove the back lid I’m forced to remove the keyboard
Yaaaas, crap design.
Thanks for your video, it helps me a lot!
I replaced the hdd against a ssd and after first start up, there is a system password required. Where can I get this?! Thanks for your help!
Ok its 1234.. whatever
How did you copy or install the computer when you out the new disk in? And what operating system? Can you post a picture of the screen you get?
which ssd model you used
Kingston or crucial normally. Sometimes SanDisk.
@@freename thanks
thanks , i managed
thank you
:)
Thanks
Why do you need to take the keyboard off I don’t get it?
Unless you want to snap the screw out of the post in the middle under the keyboard - you have to take the keyboard off to unscrew it. *(The one with the lenovo warranty sticker over it as seen at 4:30 onwards.)
@@freename ah cheers okay
Thank you for an informative video, but what a pallover just to change the battery. Lenovo need to change their design.
Yes, really annoying design.
A really bullshit laptop. You have to dissasemble the whole laptop for a single RAM upgrade. This is a dissapointment
I agree... it is damn cheap though :>
yes indeed. And if it hadn't this problem it would be a great one as well
i'm a computer engineer and find it really annoying how on some laptops you have to disassemble the whole computer to get to the bloody thing, yet with some laptops, most notably older laptops it's simply two screws, flick open a bottom tray cover and voila. Would be nice if all manufacturers made it that easy to get the hard drive in and out. At the moment I've got a corrupt volume on C: and NOTHING works, Windows 10 repair, cmd prompt, nothing wants to see the C: drive so I've got to back up and that means having to go through all this palava on my customer's laptop!
Agree, but if manufacturers can save $0.80 in screws and moulded plastic covers they will. And the frustration also means people replace sooner rather than repair or upgrade. It's a win all around for computer manufacturers.
Amazing,,,, thanks.....
Thanks for the thanks!
Super tu m'a montré comment remplacer mon SSd merci
nice job, I've only a question... How many RAM slots have the Lenovo B50-50?
I don't recall entirely but looking back at my video it does look very much like a single RAM slot.
thanks a lot
at 265 gbp it is still not worth it.
What other Core i3 15inch laptop with an SSHD could you buy at that price.
unfortunately there is just 500 gb hdd no sshd
Icannotgetafreename: This is the model 80S2, which is just one of the many series they've made. For example the B50-50 80S2000LMH is a i5 processor and an older model. I guess you have the 80S2003 series? Just wondering.
I won't be able to check for a while - but if I find out I will post a reply.
In fact all the information I can now find is on the video anyway at 0:07 - it shows the sticker on the laptop. I don't have the box any more to check what it said on the box.
Is it possible to assembly a 12.5mm hdd?
I can only go by the video.. looking at the metal bracket that the drive goes into it looks like there is a small gap at the top so there is some space, a 12.5mm high drive may work. I'm not 100% certain though.
god I hate this laptop, trying to replace the battery is a nightmare
Its funny to see how repair unfriendly Lenovo has become... Back in a day when T series were the kings Hard drive was held by a single screw... :(
Can put secend ram or no?
In the model in my video there is only one RAM slot. It looks like there is a variant that has the RAM soldered onto the board, on that version the RAM slot might be free and available to put memory into. I'd likely guess that if you have the exact model number mentioned in my video title - you can only have one stick.
@@freename i see in task manager 1 of 2 slot used
@@freename and else this is same laptop model but its my old laptop and i saw 1 of 2 slot used
What's shown in software might not be what is actually available on the board. If you see in the video just below the ram slot are 4 pads that look like they might normally have RAM chips soldered on them. That might count as the "empty slot".
I think you will only really find out if you open up the laptop and look for a spare slot.
@@freename it might is other sude of mitherboard secend ram slot?
i have a Lenovo B50 laptop and its stuck in bios when i turn it on, the problem is when i go into the bios and try to change boot order to CD,or USB it wont change and if i pick Default it goes off and stays off with the power light on, iv taken the cmos battery out and replaced it, iv went through all the settings in the bios, iv taken the ssd out, the ram out,main battery out, its stuck in a loop, is there any one can HELP! please
Try updating the bios from the Lenovo website first and then see if the settings apply?
Merci
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Thanks so much!
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It's a shit design to be fair, I don't consider this professional Level kit. Memory, HD's, Wireless cards should all be behind 1 screw compartments
Yes
I doubted the keyboard woulid have to be removed, but holy crap this is a badly designed laptop. They must have gone out of their way for such a stupid design.
Easier to sell new laptops if people can't work out how to open them up to fix or upgrade them :)
Tragic design
Oh yes, I had to replace the hard disks in 60 of these, I got quite good at opening them up!
Modern HP laptops are no better though. Everyone has gone for the design where screws are hidden under sticky feet or the keyboard needs to be removed to then undo the underside.
At leat it unbuckled quite easily by hand