Anyone know about laptop HDD's?

[melchett]

The internal HDD in my wifes Dell (Inspiron 1150) has given up and im looking for a replacement. The problem is I cant find a new direct replacement for the original Hitachi Travelstar DK23FB-40, and im wondering what alternatives will fit. Its a 44pin IDE, ATA-100.

I have seen a few other Travelstars on eBay which have a greater capacity etc, but I wnat to make sure I get one that fits. Any recommendations??

[MyM8V8]

Your on the right forum mate, this place is heaving with boffins. I'm amazed, they all seem to be in IT on here. I'm just a lowly power user.

[Well_Fans]

pretty much any 2.5" IDE drive will work as long as you dont buy one with the newer SATA interface. Think the last one I bought was around 50-60 quid for 120Gb.

[melchett]

Well_Fans said:

pretty much any 2.5" IDE drive will work as long as you dont buy one with the newer SATA interface. Think the last one I bought was around 50-60 quid for 120Gb.

Sweet, thats what I wanted to hear, cheers.

[ringram]

Some are thicker than others and may not fit.
Try and get the same model drive, maybe in larger capacity.

[Magic919]

I stuck a 120GB in the last one I fixed. Watch the connectors. There was an adapter fitted to the hard drive pins and you need to pull this off and transfer it. Get the drive from PC World.

[delmeekc]

No one knows ***k all about cars so your question will get answered ;-)

[Hex]

You should be fine with just about any ATA 2.5 drive mate.

They start from bugger all these days, heres a nice quick list. Clicky

As said, just make sure you get the pins etc all lined up correctly.