Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing.

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Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. - 18 November 2009 02:00 ( #1 )

a seperate thread for my other P.C

I have a dell p.c at home. The hard drive is faulty on it. Where is the best place to get a replacement hard drive? I heard you can get a 'replicate' Dell hard drives??

because I have noticed te pins on the Dell hard drive are considerbly different to 'normal' hard drives.

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Frost Total Posts : 1380 Reward points : 1526 Joined: 20/07/2008 Status: online Read my TROG	Reply to message Message Options Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. - 18 November 2009 09:09 ( #2 ) any shop tbh like scan.co.uk it will either be a IDE or SATA drive , dell wont have their own specific HDD format
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Papa Lazarou Total Posts : 18670 Reward points : 3545 Joined: 16/02/2006 Location: Bristol Status: online Read my TROG	Reply to message Message Options Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. - 18 November 2009 09:41 ( #3 ) http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001IKKCLS will sort you right out. You sound like you have a SATA drive (PATA or IDE being the older wider fatter standard). If you label me, you negate me... Leg Press PB 500kg 11/02/10 STOP SOURCE REQUESTS NOW FFS!
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essex_chris Total Posts : 7397 Reward points : 3856 Joined: 21/08/2005 Status: online Read my TROG	Reply to message Message Options Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. - 18 November 2009 10:01 ( #4 ) Can you post a photo of what you have so we can be sure on advising you what you need? "bring me an ambalamps" - mouthy dude after getting his arse handed to him
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Papa Lazarou Total Posts : 18670 Reward points : 3545 Joined: 16/02/2006 Location: Bristol Status: online Read my TROG	Reply to message Message Options Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. - 18 November 2009 10:08 ( #5 ) Which style? Ps - realise that thats a laptop hard disk but the connectors are the same... <message edited by Papa Lazarou on 18 November 2009 10:11> If you label me, you negate me... Leg Press PB 500kg 11/02/10 STOP SOURCE REQUESTS NOW FFS!
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essex_chris Total Posts : 7397 Reward points : 3856 Joined: 21/08/2005 Status: online Read my TROG	Reply to message Message Options Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. - 18 November 2009 10:18 ( #6 ) Does sound like a SATA drive but at this stage it has to be best to double check "bring me an ambalamps" - mouthy dude after getting his arse handed to him
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Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. - 18 November 2009 10:30 ( #7 )

id guess its a old IDE PATA drive as SL said the pins are different to the 'normal' drives, SATA is pretty much the standard HDD format these days , are the connecting cables quite wide ribbon cable? or are they thin normal looking cable ? easiest way of seeing which