Harddrive for a laptop.

[slpaulson]

I have a friend with a broken laptop so I really don't know the full specs on it. Basicly it has a 1gig harddrive in it that decided to die. Can I get pretty much any 2.5" harddrive to replace it or do I need something special? Thanks in advance.

 

[road]

Yeah, you can get pretty much any kind of drive to replace the dead drive but before you buy one make sure the drive you get is of a similar height to the one currently in your system. Older lappies usually have thicker drives, so getting a thinner drive will not help.

Peace..

 

[Workin']

You'll be fine as long as the drive you get is as thick as or thinner than the old drive.

I've replaced several old 17mm laptop drives with 9.5mm drives with no problems.

 

[slpaulson]

Ok. Could you point me toward some good harddrives? She said she doesn't need anything very large, probably around 2gb. This harddrive was a toshiba. Is that a good name or should I look for an IBM? About all she uses her laptop for is word processing.

 

[Workin']

Toshiba drives are fine, so are IBMs. If the laptop is fairly recent, you can get a 6GB Toshiba at Dirt Cheap Drives for $95, they may have others for less. Also check at Mwave, they have good prices and service.

 

[medic]

As Workin' mentioned, measure the old one and remember if you go too large you may need a bios update if they are available.

 

[Workin']

<< measure the old one and remember if you go too large >>

You mean measure the physical thickness of the old drive, because if you get a new one that is thicker it won't fit! And by if you go too large you mean disk capacity, older computers have various limitations on partition and total capacities. Just to make that a little more clear.

 

[bacillus]

also check to see if you'll need to get dos drivers for the cd drive for reinstalling the OS in case it can't use the generic windows one!

 

[medic]

Original text...

As Workin' mentioned, measure the old one and remember if you go too large you may need a bios update if they are available.

Should of been:

As Workin' mentioned, and be sure to measure the old drive's dimensions. Remember if you go much higher in capacity the bios may need to be updated.

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