T510 Recovery Disk on different hard drive

Hi,
I bought a SSD hard drive, and I was wondering if I could use my recovery disk on it. Or can I only use the recovery disk on the same hard drive?
I also bought 4 gig of faster ram. But when I open up the back there is only one slot of ram. Is it possible to upgrade both slot?
Thanks

CrazyTn wrote:
I also bought 4 gig of faster ram. But when I open up the back there is only one slot of ram. Is it possible to upgrade both slot?
Thanks
The other slot is under the keyboard. You have to remove the keyboard to access it. I'm not 100% sure of the process since I've never had to remove mine, but I seem to recall that you flip the laptop upside down and remove two screws, then you flip it back up and kind of push on the bottom edge of the keyboard a bit and it will sort of pop out. Once it's out you should be able to access the extra RAM slot.
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