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laptop hard drives Thomas 10-21-2005
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Posted by Thomas on October 21, 2005, 5:46 pm
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 Sorry to bother people with stupid questions, and thanks to anyone who
can spare a moment to give advice.

I'm having trouble with my HP nx9005. I suspect the hard drive has
died - it sometimes boots, sometimes doesn't, windows system recovery
discovers bad sectors. If it does boot, then it bluescreens after a few
minutes, accompanied by repetitive clicks from the drive.

Two questions really: first, is there any way I can definitively
establish that the hard drive is at fault, not the RAM or anything
else?

And second: how generic are laptop drives? If the HP website specifies
an ATA-100 EIDE 4,200 rpm 2.5 inch form factor drive, must it be
exactly that? Can the capacity or the number of rpm be different? Must
the drive be from the same manufacturer (toshiba)? Will the connector
be compatible?

Thanks to anyone who can help, no rewards, just eternal gratitude to
anyone who can save me from paying authorised service centre prices...

cheers,

Thomas



Posted by Martin S. on October 21, 2005, 6:18 pm
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 Your hard drive is dead. Hard drive are pretty standard among the form
factors. I would look for a 5,400 RPM, 8MB Cache drive as a replacement, it
will be faster than the original.



> Sorry to bother people with stupid questions, and thanks to anyone who
> can spare a moment to give advice.
>
> I'm having trouble with my HP nx9005. I suspect the hard drive has
> died - it sometimes boots, sometimes doesn't, windows system recovery
> discovers bad sectors. If it does boot, then it bluescreens after a few
> minutes, accompanied by repetitive clicks from the drive.
>
> Two questions really: first, is there any way I can definitively
> establish that the hard drive is at fault, not the RAM or anything
> else?
>
> And second: how generic are laptop drives? If the HP website specifies
> an ATA-100 EIDE 4,200 rpm 2.5 inch form factor drive, must it be
> exactly that? Can the capacity or the number of rpm be different? Must
> the drive be from the same manufacturer (toshiba)? Will the connector
> be compatible?
>
> Thanks to anyone who can help, no rewards, just eternal gratitude to
> anyone who can save me from paying authorised service centre prices...
>
> cheers,
>
> Thomas
>




Posted by Jerry Park on October 21, 2005, 8:12 pm
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Thomas wrote:
> Sorry to bother people with stupid questions, and thanks to anyone who
> can spare a moment to give advice.
>
> I'm having trouble with my HP nx9005. I suspect the hard drive has
> died - it sometimes boots, sometimes doesn't, windows system recovery
> discovers bad sectors. If it does boot, then it bluescreens after a few
> minutes, accompanied by repetitive clicks from the drive.
>
> Two questions really: first, is there any way I can definitively
> establish that the hard drive is at fault, not the RAM or anything
> else?
>
> And second: how generic are laptop drives? If the HP website specifies
> an ATA-100 EIDE 4,200 rpm 2.5 inch form factor drive, must it be
> exactly that? Can the capacity or the number of rpm be different? Must
> the drive be from the same manufacturer (toshiba)? Will the connector
> be compatible?
>
> Thanks to anyone who can help, no rewards, just eternal gratitude to
> anyone who can save me from paying authorised service centre prices...
>
> cheers,
>
> Thomas
>
If you have bad sectors reported, it is definitely the drive. Note that
a bad sector doesn't mean the drive is scrap. When I bought my laptop, I
had two bad sectors which I allowed Windows to fix. Used the drive for
over a year after that with no problems. If you have developed many bad
sectors, or if you fix bad sectors and new bad sectors are found, the
disk is scrap.

Any 2.5" drive should work fine. Get the fastest and largest you can afford.


Posted by Thomas on October 21, 2005, 6:15 pm
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Thanks for your help! Any drive? It seems that there's a range of
interfaces - it looks like ATA-100 and EIDE are the same thing. Am I
right? Serial ATA is the wrong thing, yes?



Posted by Barry Watzman on October 22, 2005, 1:44 am
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You have to stick with IDE (ATA-anything, but not serial ATA (which is
rare anyway)).


Thomas wrote:

> Thanks for your help! Any drive? It seems that there's a range of
> interfaces - it looks like ATA-100 and EIDE are the same thing. Am I
> right? Serial ATA is the wrong thing, yes?
>


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