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Need Toshiba Laptop Harddrive

Jan 26, 2005 1:50AM PST

I have a compaq armada e500. The hard drive went south and I need a new one. Normally this would be a straight forward process. I spoke to a tech rep at Toshiba that said compaq installs firm ware into the upper memory of the drive and without it the computer won't recognize the drive. THe drive is MK2016GAP but it must have the following on it too;HDD2154F or HDD2154L. DOes anyone have one they pulled? THanks

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Jan 26, 2005 2:04AM PST
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Armada HD
Mar 5, 2005 2:03AM PST

Ok I dont understand why you need a toshiba drive I refurbish armada e500s and generally use travelstar hds which I have plenty of. If you want I sell them at a good price WITH xp pro sp2 installed let me know.