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 Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing.

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Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. - 18 November 2009 02:00
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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Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. - 18 November 2009 09:09
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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Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. - 18 November 2009 09:41
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).
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Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. - 18 November 2009 10:01
Can you post a photo of what you have so we can be sure on advising you what you need?
Awesome pic, but Tony you're not doing yourself many favours posting up tips on preventing the gag reflex and then a picture of a guy touching his toes - Ak
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Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. - 18 November 2009 10:08



Which style?


Ps - realise that thats a laptop hard disk but the connectors are the same...
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Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. - 18 November 2009 10:18
Does sound like a SATA drive but at this stage it has to be best to double check
Awesome pic, but Tony you're not doing yourself many favours posting up tips on preventing the gag reflex and then a picture of a guy touching his toes - Ak
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Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. - 18 November 2009 10:30
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
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