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Hard Disk Replacement

Oct 20, 2004 9:22AM PDT

According to Belarc and an application named HDD Health, my H/D's days are numbered. Also, the fact that my computer screen has frozen more times than I can remember within a 1 1/2 year period, resulting in several H/D reformats, seems to confirm the statistics.

I want to replace my failing 40GB internal H/D with a 60 or 80GB one. Will that make for incompatability problems? Where do I find the specifications of my present H/D in Windows, so that I purchase one that configures with my pc?

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Re: Hard Disk Replacement
Oct 20, 2004 2:51PM PDT

you didn't tell us much about your system -- mobo in particular. assuming we're not talking something exotic, e.g., like SCSI, I think the only real issue is the HD size (in terms of MB) limitations of older mobos.

other than speed and size, they're all pretty much the same. I happen to like seagate. --fj

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Re: Hard Disk Replacement
Oct 20, 2004 3:04PM PDT

If mobo sees the 40gb without a boot utility (overlay), then it should do okay with larger, up to 132 gb. You'll know when you go to use it.
Have bad sectors been id'd and marked? Otherwise, there aren't many Hdd utilities that check the mechanical drive part.
If no bad sectors, then it sounds more like what you do with your OS that needs re-installing. What OS?