How To Upgrade the Hard Drive in the HP 2133 Mini-Note

whats the largest hard drive i could put in there???

Very good job thanks for the install tips!!! Keep up the good work !!!!'

Great video, but this method will only work if your mini-note shipped with a hard drive, the SSD model doesn't have that HDD bracket, it's completely different and a normal hard drive won't fit inside, just a SSD board.
As a side note, the original 4GB SSD board has only 2 of 16 memory slots populated with 16 Gigabit SAMSUNG chips. One could easily find cheap NAND flash memory from some 2GB USB thumb drives and populate all the slots giving a 32Gigabyte SSD!!

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is this the same as the compaq mini 700?

What is not emphasised here is that the SATA connector is very easily broken when you "unplug" it as shown here at around 3.07 minutes. The plug is surface mounted on the brown flexy strip, and the act of unplugging it can easily partly tear it of the flexy strip, and you 2133 no longer works !

And even worse H.P. does not sell this SATA connector separately, it comes only with a new HDD. Treat it very carefully.

I absolutely agree, danMdan. I was very gentle when removing and re-inserting the connector. Nonetheless, it lasted only two rounds and I'm now stuck with a dead 2133.

The connectors have been seen for sale on ebay - it is worth a look.

Dan

Yeah, but right now, not many are on sale -- unless bought with the hard drive. I did manage to snag one and convince the seller to ship overseas for an OK price. Next time they go for cheap, I'll stock up.

Regardless, this is what I'll do from now on: leave the cable connector inserted, but unscrew and flip out the hard drive, detach the SATA data+power block, mount the new drive in the bracket, then re-insert the block. This way, the cable remains unmolested.

I have an HP Mini 1000, I bought an upgrade for the hard drive but I'm afraid that replacing it will mess up my computer or something. I know I need to format the new drive but I don't know how to do that.