WTB: 2.5in Laptop HDD

Richard Rose richard58 at bigpond.com
Tue Jan 28 19:55:27 EST 2003


On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:30, Davis, Ron wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> My laptop's drive seems to have failed... (Makes unpleasant clicking noises
> then reports a hard disk failure when booting)
>
> Anybody upgraded recently and have a spare 2.5in drive they want to sell?
> Anything greater than 2Gb would be fine (it's just for an old P166) but
> must have a max thickness of 12.5mm to fit in the laptop's drive bay.  I
> have a spare drive but it's too thick to fit at around 17mm :(
>
> If you happen to have one kicking around doing nothing I'd be glad to hear
> from you!
>
Just a note of warning, some older laptops don't like the newer ATA100 drives. 
I have recently had to replace a drive in a P200 and had a hard time finding 
one that worked.

Richard R :-)



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