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the only thing you need to know is if it is a sata or ide hard drive (if you look at the end of the drive if it has a lot of little holes it's an ide) then shop for whatever size drive you want i.e 250GB 2.5" hard drive. Because it's for a laptop it will have to be a 2.5" hard drive.
Download a program called discovery from WD, it is free. When installed, plug in the drive and run the discovery program. Your drive should work properly. Please let me know how it works for you.
From experience I recommend a Western Digital Hard Disk Drive as I have had far less problems with them then Seagate - As IDE is gradually being phased out I recommend acting soon as the drives will become scarce as they are very cheap and lacking in variety at the moment.
In particular the Western Digital Caviar WD5000AAKB is a good value drive - just over a hundred dollars and features 500GB of space 7200RPM and a 16mb Cache
It seems the best for value at the moment once again I advise you not to delay as vendors are gradually phasing them out.
Hope this information pointed you in the right direction ;)
I was just reading an article in a computer magizine compairing 7200 RPM hard drives and their is very little difference between. THe change comes if you want a fast hard drive for gaming with you would not want anyway. If it is an old Dell it has most likely an ide drive. Make sure to buy the same. Windows Xp only supports 320 Gbytes I beleive. Anything above that is subdivided if used as the system drive.
Newegg.com
is reasonable and has a good slection of hard drives. Some Walmart have hard drives.
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