Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing.

Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. (Frost)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:30:08 GMT

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

Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. (essex_chris)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:18:35 GMT

Does sound like a SATA drive but at this stage it has to be best to double check

Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. (Papa Lazarou)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:08:21 GMT

Which style?

Ps - realise that thats a laptop hard disk but the connectors are the same...

Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. (essex_chris)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:01:11 GMT

Can you post a photo of what you have so we can be sure on advising you what you need?

Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. (Papa Lazarou)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:41:33 GMT

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).

Re:Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. (Frost)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:09:23 GMT

any shop tbh like scan.co.uk

it will either be a IDE or SATA drive , dell wont have their own specific HDD format

Dell Hard desktop hard-drive needs replacing. (sl)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:10 GMT

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.