The damn thing's died again.
This time it's definitely the hard drive. Caddied it and ran check disc which failed due bad sectors.
Data recovered again via Ubuntu but lost his pictures 'cos the silly s*d didn't open and check the recovered copy - it was just a short cut. Lesson learned hopefully
Disc was a SATA 320 GB Hitachi Z5K320 Travelstar. Am I right in thinking that 2.5inch SATA discs are reasonably generic and that I can replace it with the WD model on offer in MAplin?
Also, are there any restrictions on size etc the OS (WIn7/64) might recognise? I'm thinking in terms of installing 500GB. Am I likely to have any problems re-installing the OS from recovery discs following an HDD change?
Thanks in anticipation
Simon
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Dead Laptop 
Dead Laptop 
