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ericnjttz · 12-22-2009, 06:48 PM

Had a power outage today which took the life of the hard drive in my HP touchsmart.....its a internal seagate 500gb.

Are all internal harddrives basically the same? can i go buy say a western digital 500gb from office depot and replace it?

if not please tell me what i need to know

thanks

Scapegoat · 12-22-2009, 07:01 PM

probably can. what are the mother board specs?

ericnjttz · 12-22-2009, 07:05 PM

is it bad that i dont know? alls i know its 2.16ghz with 4mb of ram and a 500gb broken hard drive

c0nfl1kt · 12-22-2009, 07:05 PM

Is it a laptop or a desktop? If it's a computer from the past 5 years it's probably using SATA cables for the hard drive, so any hard drive that says SATA on the bottom right corner you can use as long as its not a laptop hard drive in which case you would have to look for laptop hard drives.

ericnjttz · 12-22-2009, 07:06 PM

its a desktop and its less than a year old...i remember seeing sata 1 or something when i was doing diagnostics

Scapegoat · 12-22-2009, 07:07 PM

you'll be fine. just make sure you have enough sata connections

ericnjttz · 12-22-2009, 07:08 PM

http://www.officedepot.com/a/product...al-Hard-Drive/

this was the one i was looking at

c0nfl1kt · 12-22-2009, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ericnjttz

http://www.officedepot.com/a/product...al-Hard-Drive/

this was the one i was looking at

Yeah, that's fine. ****, I might get one of those myself. That's cheap for 1TB.

ericnjttz · 12-22-2009, 07:12 PM

awesome thanks guys

lagos · 12-22-2009, 07:16 PM

Seagate makes great drives btw. I've had one in my system running 24/7 for over 5yrs now with zero problems.

ericnjttz · 12-22-2009, 07:21 PM

yeah thats the one thats in my pc now but its 500gb guess **** happens i have a seagate external with no problems

Vypurr · 12-22-2009, 07:52 PM

Are you sure the touchsmart uses a desktop hdd? They are awful small computers, and I would not be surprised if there was a laptop hdd inside.

c0nfl1kt · 12-22-2009, 07:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vypurr

Are you sure the touchsmart uses a desktop hdd? They are awful small computers, and I would not be surprised if there was a laptop hdd inside.

I looked it up. It's SATA.

Vypurr · 12-22-2009, 08:03 PM

Of course it's SATA, but there are SATA 2.5" drives and 3.5"

ericnjttz · 12-22-2009, 08:12 PM

ill have to take it back apart and see

Honest_Bob · 12-22-2009, 08:40 PM

Take it apart and get us a picture of the connector end of the hdd.

ericnjttz · 12-22-2009, 08:50 PM

its a desktop hard drive

http://www.desktopreview.com/default.asp?newsID=465

JankyS13 · 01-03-2010, 06:05 AM

newegg.com has 1.5TB for that price i have one for now and later plan on another....

12-22-2009, 06:48 PM	#1
ericnjttz Tri-State Addict Join Date: Aug 2007 Member #5687 My Ride: Z iTrader: (1)	computer hard drive noob question Had a power outage today which took the life of the hard drive in my HP touchsmart.....its a internal seagate 500gb. Are all internal harddrives basically the same? can i go buy say a western digital 500gb from office depot and replace it? if not please tell me what i need to know thanks

12-22-2009, 07:16 PM	#10
lagos Tri-State Post Whore Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Philadelphia, PA Member #989 My Ride: Toyota Celica GT-Two iTrader: (0)	Seagate makes great drives btw. I've had one in my system running 24/7 for over 5yrs now with zero problems. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 signatures. The accelerator on my toyota has always been stuck to the floor.. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 signatures.

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