Your replacement choice will work just fine. When choosing hard drive replacements, you want to pay attention to the external dimensions (in this case, 3.5"), and the rpm (in this case, 7200). Generally, just find a hard drive that matches those 2 values...capacity doesn't matter. As for transferring, id suggest trying to make an image backup right now. Also, be sure to download whatever operating system you use (if you don't have the disks or an installer already), and make a usb boot drive. Using the boot drive, you'll be able to restore the image onto a new drive. I'm not sure if that will work 100% since your current hard drive seems to be malfunctioning. Someone may be able to explain the process a bit simpler, but that's what worked for me.
Thanks for the confirmation, Comatone1982; thought that was the case but wanted to make sure before ordering.
I do have several full backups and images, but since I only keep the most recent ones not sure if any of them are totally clean. Macrium does give the option of skipping bad sector(s) on an image, so I thought I might make a new one and try that. Years ago when another drive failed I was able to do what you described with success, but the image I had then was before that drive had failed.
I'm looking to replace a failing Seagate drive, ST31500341AS (1.5 TB 7200 rpm 3.5 inch 32mb sata)
I think I can still get a replacement of the same model hard drive, but thought I might upgrade a bit. Any suggestions? I'm considering a Seagate FireCuda SSHD, ST2000DX002 (2 TB 7200 rmp 3.5 inch 64mb sata) Will this be compatible?
Not 100%, but I think I have an R-2 (that's what my manual lists).
Another question...the failing drive apparently has a bad sector or sectors; can I clone it with an image (Macrium) that has skipped the bad sectors?
Thanks for any help!
Like the Aurora-R1, I think the Aurora-R2 only had a SATA-2/300 interface.
I suggest a conventional 2.5inch SATA SSD ... as bootable C: ... 240gb or larger. The machine might actually run pretty fast again.
Those hybrid caching SSD/HDD are a tricky thing, not really that fast, and not a good value. You are better off with a real SSD and a conventional HDD (if you must have a spinner).
Comatone1982
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March 19th, 2018 13:00
Your replacement choice will work just fine. When choosing hard drive replacements, you want to pay attention to the external dimensions (in this case, 3.5"), and the rpm (in this case, 7200). Generally, just find a hard drive that matches those 2 values...capacity doesn't matter. As for transferring, id suggest trying to make an image backup right now. Also, be sure to download whatever operating system you use (if you don't have the disks or an installer already), and make a usb boot drive. Using the boot drive, you'll be able to restore the image onto a new drive. I'm not sure if that will work 100% since your current hard drive seems to be malfunctioning. Someone may be able to explain the process a bit simpler, but that's what worked for me.
CarolinaK
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Thanks for the confirmation, Comatone1982; thought that was the case but wanted to make sure before ordering.
I do have several full backups and images, but since I only keep the most recent ones not sure if any of them are totally clean. Macrium does give the option of skipping bad sector(s) on an image, so I thought I might make a new one and try that. Years ago when another drive failed I was able to do what you described with success, but the image I had then was before that drive had failed.
Thanks again for your help!
Tesla1856
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March 19th, 2018 15:00
Like the Aurora-R1, I think the Aurora-R2 only had a SATA-2/300 interface.
I suggest a conventional 2.5inch SATA SSD ... as bootable C: ... 240gb or larger. The machine might actually run pretty fast again.
Those hybrid caching SSD/HDD are a tricky thing, not really that fast, and not a good value. You are better off with a real SSD and a conventional HDD (if you must have a spinner).
Tesla1856
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March 19th, 2018 16:00
I would NOT.
Backup data and data-files as normal files, copied to flash-drive.
Keep that old/bad drive un-touched (for a while) in case you missed something.
Clean-install Windows and drivers
Restore data-files.