Laptop Help

[Brett Kay]

Well i think my hard drive is failing on the laptop. So looking at the best option.

At the moment looking at the WD Scorpio Blue 250gb for $65. Better options, or should i try for the Scorpio Black for a quicker hard drive?

Also best ideas, burn off a recover disc and reinstall everything, or copy to the old portable hdd, then copy back.

As i know there are a few tech heads, trying to find if someone can give me a good option. I usually play around with desktops so laptops are unfamiliar.

And no, can't get a new laptop this time around. Still fairly solid in terms of performance.

Its a toshiba A300 if you need stats on it.

[Scotty]

Ring Dave

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[bennymacca]

definitely put a fresh install on there. just backup your files

[Matty Norwood]

is it insured?

[David]

Just take out the old one, and put in the new one. Reinstall Windows and programs.
Get a HDD Caddy and plug it in to get the data off the old one. Then blow away the old one and run a test on it (what brand is it?) to see if it's actually shagged.

[Brett Kay]

Just take out the old one, and put in the new one. Reinstall Windows and programs.
Get a HDD Caddy and plug it in to get the data off the old one. Then blow away the old one and run a test on it (what brand is it?) to see if it's actually shagged.

Came with the laptop, but in the last week the computer has frozen twice, made some funky scraping noises from where the hard drive is, and had Utorrent saying HDD overload 100%.
All fun.

Not insured. Bought Sept 08. Apart from that, think it is a quick fix with the hard drive. Downsize is trying to remember passwords again.

[gundog]

The other option is to ghost your drive on to a back up drive, install replacement HDD and ghost it with the backup drive, everything remains the same.

Would be either 320 or 250Gb SATA drive

[David]

Unless of course the data is corrupted because of the bad sectors on the HD.

I wouldn't ever EVER do that.

[bennymacca]

Unless of course the data is corrupted because of the bad sectors on the HD.

I wouldn't ever EVER do that.

as long as you can get the stuff off ok, no reason to ghost.

a fresh install every now and then makes your computer last longer as well, because you dont get pissed off at its slowness

[gundog]

I have a clean Ghost Image on a spare drive that has the windows/hardware and important software like Office etc etc on it which I use to refresh my laptop from time to time. All files like doc's etc are stored in a data partition.

Thus getting rid of the crud that stays in various folders and the registry, occasionally after re-imaging the C: partition and reinstalling any new must keep software I will create a new image.