Replacement Notebook HD

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My girlfriend has an Emachine e-slate 400 notebook on which the HD just failed. I have changed or added a second HD to many PC's, but I don't have much knowledge of notebooks. My question is, must the HD be replaced with a like HD or is there such thing as a standard IDE HD such as a PC has. It has a 4.3 GB HD now, and I am not looking to increase the size...I just want to get it running again. Also, if anyone knows of a good place to buy a notebook HD. Thanks for any help you can give.
Bill

 

[Lars_Coleman]

Notebook hard drives are somewhat easy to replace. Finding one cheap is going to be your problem. I would look at Toshiba, Fujitsu, or IBM for a laptop drive.

<A HREF="http://hdd.fujitsu.com/global/drive/mobile.html" target="_new"><font color=red>Fujitsu</font color=red></A>
<A HREF="http://www.toshiba.com/taecdpd/products.shtml" target="_new"><font color=red>Toshiba</font color=red></A>
<A HREF="http://www.storage.ibm.com/" target="_new"><font color=blue>IBM</font color=blue></A>

Any internal desktop hard drive isn't going to fit in the Laptop case. I mean if you had a working internal hard drive and you were only looking for storage space then an External USB/1394 drive would be perfect!

Hope that gives you some idea ....

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[Crashman]

For used drives try <A HREF="http://www.compgeeks.com" target="_new">http://www.compgeeks.com</A> Simply measure the hieght of the old drive to make sure the replacement will fit.

Back to you Tom...