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Hookinsn · 12-08-2007, 08:15 PM

My wife's Dell 510M has had a terminal hard drive failure, it cannot boot and booting from disk, cannot access the C: drive. I think its dead. Leaving aside the data recovery, if that is the case, is repairing as simple as removing the disk and replacing it with another? A new hard disk is fairly cheap, but I don't want to splah cash for one only to find out its a bigger problem, and have to replace something else too. Rather bite the bullet and shell out for a new laptop.

Also, are there compatibility issues with Dells and hard drives, or will pretty much any do?

Thanks for any responses......

Hooky

12-08-2007, 08:15 PM	#1 (permalink)
Hookinsn Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2 OS: XP	Replacing hard drive on Dell 510M My wife's Dell 510M has had a terminal hard drive failure, it cannot boot and booting from disk, cannot access the C: drive. I think its dead. Leaving aside the data recovery, if that is the case, is repairing as simple as removing the disk and replacing it with another? A new hard disk is fairly cheap, but I don't want to splah cash for one only to find out its a bigger problem, and have to replace something else too. Rather bite the bullet and shell out for a new laptop. Also, are there compatibility issues with Dells and hard drives, or will pretty much any do? Thanks for any responses...... Hooky