Lenovo Ideapad 110S-11IBR Upgrade

A quick how to guide on how to upgrade the Lenovo Ideapad 110S-11IBR Laptop

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SSD Examples:
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Crucial 500GB:

Samsung 1TB:

Windows 10 Media Creation Tool can be found here:

[mindfullyabsurd]

Thank you, well presented and gave me the confidence to upgrade the SSD hard drive because of the issue of not having enough space (32GB SSD) to allow for the Windows 10 upgrades.

[paulmason]

What a VERY helpful and understandable guide to upgrading this Lenovo Ideapad from an annoying 32GB to a great 240GB storage laptop. Everything worked out perfectly. My wife, who is the owner, will be thrilled not to get interminable messages about lack of space for updating Windows 10. Many thanks to "The Man" whose name I do not know !!

[terryfagin]

Thanks for this comprehensive and totally accurate tutorial. I was about to ditch a 110S-11KBR due to lack of storage. It was a bargain buy years ago with a brand I trust and advertised as upgradeable to Windows 10. Of course with only a 32GB SSD, that became an ongoing problem. Before finding your video, I did not even know there was an expansion slot (and I downloaded to hardware manual). New life to what would have been clearly obsolete.

[paulchaplain]

Great, worked a treat. That's the hardware done the software...I got an hour old copy of windows but windows update still had a lot to run, which took a good while and a reboot or two, and need lenovo vantage and lenovo service bridge have to be downloaded and run to get the trackpad to work for sliding up and down..Then it will load all the windows bloatware so make sure you can keep your eye on it for a while to get things up to date ...then when you get time disable the USB boot option from the BIOS so that you don't get some other USB corrupting anything

[philipmarshall]

Thank you for a very informative and well presented video. Until seeing it, I had no idea that storage on the Lenovo 110S could be upgraded, nor was I aware there was such a thing as M.2 ssd. I bought a Kingston A400 120 GB ssd for 25 quid, followed the procedures you demonstrated, and voila, everything worked perfectly! As you say, the Lenovo is a great little laptop for travelling. I used to store my photos and files on a16 GB micro card but that’s not an ideal solution. Thanks again for explaining everything so clearly, and I wish your channel every success!

[markraymond]

Thank you very much. A friend gave me his 110 because he bought a newer laptop that was expandable. After removing all his files I looked in Youtube and found this video. Amazon sent the new HD in two days and I installed it this afternoon. It took Windows longer to install itself than it took to make the upgrade. Thanks again.

[johnc]

Thanks for this, have upgraded ours and got a Kingston 240gb new off Amazon for £21.99 and installed no problem. Windows install took 2 goes because I forgot to wipe the old emmc first time and you can't wipe it once you're in Windows, even if you boot off the new SSD because it still sees the old unit as a protected boot drive. (At 10.10 before installing, select the old unit and delete the partitions then create a single (empty) partition.) As others have said, without this the computer would have been junk. Cheers

[malcolmwallis]

Very grateful - I was on the point of junking this laptop. Your video was clear and straightforward and above all encouraging! Thanks again.

[lolat]

Thanks Matt. Enabled me to create a useful little notepad I can easily take on the plane to holiday and when out and about. Took a bit of head scratching as I found some things, e.g. non booting USBs etc, but nothing too major.

[cpofdm]

Hi. Today I bought a junk 110s at Akihabara, but was at a loss as I couldn't find the way to bios. Thanks to your video, I have just been able to restore it!

[bwucewee]

very good tutorial, clear on the requirements with links to examples included. Giving us many alternatives to tools as well (old credit card, plectrum etc...) You didn't edit out any mistakes you make (like missing a screw) etc.

[Circumnavigate]

Excellent video, thanks for making this.

[ΓιάννηςΗλιόπουλος-ξψ]

Great video! Not only for the information but also for the presentation (clear and fluent language). Many a time, regardless of how interesting a topic may be, it's difficult to watch because of the bad speech. Thank you!

[PritongLamok]

I've been looking for this one. Thank you so much for this tutorial.

[BrutalRiotGirl]

Ty, liked I pulled this tablet out after not using it for awhile and nothing could update due to low memory, thanks

[mmikeho]

This is the best vid. Clear, simple and easy to understand you. It helps and resolves my storage issues. Big Thanks.

[melanielucke]

Thank you for your explanation, it was very helpful and exactly what I was looking for. Everything worked out wonderfully. Great video 👍

[ob]

Thank you, a great tutorial, exactly what I needed.

[AdamCorkett]

Glad I watched this, because whilst I was aware an m.2 SSD could be installed, I'd thought it was nvme pcie not sata 3, so pennies saved.

[the_LuckyPenny]

My wife has the same notebook. Another idea is to enlarge the paging files so the computer doesn’t freeze and crash apps when it runs out of Ram memory.