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Drive failure Inspiron One 2305
On the Dell desktop forum I have had many helpful answers to the drive failure on this 4 year old desktop. I now know for sure that the drive is dead and needs to be replaced. I was able to extricate the failed drive from the 2305 and am looking at replacing it with the following from Amazon - $48.00 2 year warranty.
Toshiba 3.5-Inch 1TB 7200 RPM SATA3/SATA 6.0 GB/s 32MB Hard Drive DT01ACA100I
I looked at the many questions asked about using this drive in many different types of desktop pc's on Amazon and all answers were positive. Since I have the cables to which it was attached, the cage, and my recovery disks, I should be able to put the new one in reattaching it all to the above pieces and run the recovery disks - download any drivers needed from Dell and all Window's updates from Microsoft. Does this sound like a sound plan to this dilemma. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Have I covered everything? Thanks very much.
DELL-Jesse L
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January 9th, 2017 06:00
ritkit03,
Sounds like your on your way. Below are some links to help you get your system back up.
Inspiron 2305 One. Drivers, Downloads and Manuals
http://dell.to/2iVHYQC
How to clean install Windows 7 Professional on a new Hard Drive on a Dell PC
http://dell.to/2iVMK0H
How to reinstall drivers in the correct order
http://dell.to/2iVIKgB
RoHe
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January 9th, 2017 10:00
Unless your personal files are all backed up elsewhere, you may also need a drive enclosure to house the old drive so you can connect it to a USB port to see if you can rescue your files.
Or, install it as a secondary SATA drive in some other PC to see if the files can be rescued...