Disc = Compact Disc / DVD
Disk = Hard Disk / Floppy Disk
Those are different terms.
[QUOTE=xboomguy;19424958]Disc = Compact Disc / DVD
Disk = Hard Disk / Floppy Disk
Those are different terms.[/QUOTE]
not everyone follows that convention
Any suggestions as to what hdd to get?
Which one of these does it look like?
[img]http://jekkilekki.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/sata-ide-laptop-hard-drive.jpg[/img]
(the connectors)
Sata.
How big was your old one?
Its small as shit. It is an 80gb hitachi @ 5200rpm. There are no measurements on it though. Its like 1/4" thick, 2-3" wide and like 4" long.
Would you like the same size or get something a little bigger?
About the same size.
[QUOTE=its shortie;19437462]About the same size.[/QUOTE]
I'd go with [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136197]this[/url]. 320GB for $65, and it is made by Western Digital (good hdd company in my experience).
Might get 500GB. They're priced really closely, Samsung has some damn nice HDDs too; Samsung Spinpoint. It's cheap and [b][i]fast[/i][/b].
Any laptop stata drive will work get the cheapest from newegg.
Also: The problem with your current drive is that there was probably a small head crash on the boot sector you may be able to use it as storage try to reformat it with ubuntu when I had a drive with bad sectors it prompted me to ignore the bad sectors to have slightly less space.
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