2. While you can find out what SATA is on the web you can find new 500GB HDDs for this laptop under 50bucks on amazon (new!) Can't imagine ebay when good new stuff is same price.
I have been given this laptop as it was being thrown away. The hard drive has been removed. I use one of these for work that belongs to my employer. I used their charger to get the computer to turn on. I can do some diagnostics on it with the F keys but it shows a problem with the hard drive of course. I see hard drives and chargers on E bay so I could get it going for 30 bucks or so. It would be just to play with and probably load music cd's to sync to my mp3. When I had it running the there was no cursor and the trac pad did nothing. I navigated the diagnostic screens with the arrow keys. I was able to get to the screen to select trac pad or mouse and it was on trac pad. Questions: 1) Is the trac pad not working because of no hard drive? 2) Some of the hard drives for sale say SATA, what is this?

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