IMHO
Had this about two years ago, took the 'Dell'drive out and found it to be the same as most other drives just with a connector/interface lead. Might be that the hadrd disk had an additional caseing that Dell fit, cannot exactly remember but easy to do yourself.

A dell will take a nornal laptop h/d, oyu need to use the 'interface' cable/connector off of your old drive to connect it though.


[Edited by Paul Habgood - 7/4/2002 1:01:37 PM]

 

Hi, Have a Dell Inspiron 7500 that the hard drive has just FUBAR on. Any one got a spare one or know where I can get one?
Cheers

 

Hurray, managed to get one from Micro Warehouse for £80 so not too unhappy!
Please, no posts tellling me I could have got one for £30!!!!

 

you could have got one for £29

 

Cheers!!!!!!!!

 

Or you could have got a £3 40pin ide cable adaptor from maplins and LOW LEVEL formatted the drive using a desktop pc's BIOS

 

not really depends on what happend when it whent fubar

 

It went wrong! Laptop would not boot, HDD made nasty clicking sound and screen kept coming up with "no operating system found". In my expereince this means it is Knackered!

 

well a low level format would do nowt in a situation like that as the clicking is the head skipping from one side of the platter to the other. in my experiance with dell they do use crap hard disks we have had 3 laptops fail in that same way and about 5 desktops