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From what I have read these errors mean I have to replace my hard drive. Could I remove my WDBUZG5000ABK-NESN external hard from its casing and use it as my new laptop hard drive? Given that this drive is SATA, 500 GB, and 5400 rpm, this earlier topic en.community.dell.com/.../19482041 ;indicates my drive is compatible. Also, I am unable to Windows from the hard drive of CD/DVD drive and was unable to retrieve my data using Knoppix as I could not mount my hard drive. Is my best chance to recover my data to use my old drive as a slave after it is replaced? Is this different from just using it as an external hard drive? Thanks.
Any standard 2.5" 9.5 mm or slimmer SATA notebook drive will work - any capacity or speed.
I don't know whether Seagate uses a different drive mechanism inside its external drives as WD does (but note that on many of these, the disassembly of an external drive is irreversible -- the shell is very often broken in the process).
The answer to using the drive inside the external case is no - you cannot. WD external 2.5" drives have the USB 3.0 connector as part of the drive logic board - there's no SATA connector on the drive. You will need a 2.5" SATA drive to mount inside the system.
If you could not mount the drive using Linux, chances are the drive is beyond home recovery. You can try attaching it to a working system as an external, but chances are if you need the data, you're headed for a data recovery service (and weighing the cost vs. the value of the data - figure on $600-700 as a starting point for data recovery).
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Posted May 18th, 2015 20:00
Thanks enj63. I did a quick search and saw some hard drive specs including SATA II, SATA III, 7200 rpm, 8 MB cache, and 6 Gb/s. Which of these affect compatibility? Is there a maximum hard drive size for the Inspiron 1545? Finally, is my Seagate Expansion STBX2000401 also not an option because of it being USB 3.0?