Need to replace portable HD

[erikthepope]

My brother gave me a Sony portable but the HD makes noise and it won't boot. I used Spinrite and Norton disk doctor but no joy there. I imagine I'll have to replace the HD. The Sony replacement part is costly to I want to find something else. WD make some drives with more than enough capacity but I know portables have proprietary hardware. Does anyone know of a HD that will fit my portable? Thanks.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

http://www.kahlon.com/itemdetailpg.asp?itemid=1031315
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144378
Here's a couple of links to get you started.

 

[erikthepope]

I went to the newegg page and it said that there was a "clicking problem" with this drive. That's what it's doing now while trying to load Windoze XP. Maybe I should just try updating the firmware? Of course, that may be a problem because it won't boot now from the HD but it will from the floppy. Hmmm...

 

[John]

Any 2.5" 9.5mm drive will fit. The WD 60GB that Magnus links to is very nice, and for a few bucks more you can get a higher capacity drive.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi...50380&Subcategory=380&Manufactory=1306