i would avoid buying a hard drive on ebay except when you get a warranty from the seller for at least one year. most hdd can be faulty without your immediate knowledge about this. you can find out such things first until you used them for some time (maybe there are already repaired corrupted sectors).
if you are out of money now i would join the opinion from mattcowger: buy a new hdd. you can get one very cheap if its small and has low rpm.
mattcowger
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April 7th, 2004 18:00
Pretty much ANY notebook hard drive will work with your machine, and a new 20GB drive can be had for about $75 new or $50 on ebay.
immortal43
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April 7th, 2004 18:00
Thanks, the good thing about Ebay is that most HDD auctions will give you a little window to send the item back in case it doesn't work.
Should I not worry about certain ATA or things like that?
the_pete
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April 8th, 2004 08:00
i would avoid buying a hard drive on ebay except when you get a warranty from the seller for at least one year. most hdd can be faulty without your immediate knowledge about this. you can find out such things first until you used them for some time (maybe there are already repaired corrupted sectors).
if you are out of money now i would join the opinion from mattcowger: buy a new hdd. you can get one very cheap if its small and has low rpm.
mattcowger
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April 8th, 2004 15:00