Cheap 120 gig laptop Hard drives
04 March 2008, 03:06 PM
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Cheap 120 gig laptop Hard drives
i have some brand new never used/still in their sealed static bags, 120 gig SATA Seagate 7200rpm laptop hard drives.
looking for £30 each for them.
cheers
looking for £30 each for them.
cheers
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05 March 2008, 11:47 AM
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bugger, i bought a new one on sunday for my lappy, could only get 80gb as well 
Good price though, would have been good if mine had failed yesterday!!
Free bttt for you
Good price though, would have been good if mine had failed yesterday!!
Free bttt for you
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11 March 2008, 04:45 PM
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this one uses SATA drives so would be fine.
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11 March 2008, 04:54 PM
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The laptop isn't that new LOL
The hard drive seems to be under a cover underneath the laptop....... held with 4 small screws.
Can I just unscrew it and have a look at what is there at the moment??
Shaun
The hard drive seems to be under a cover underneath the laptop....... held with 4 small screws.
Can I just unscrew it and have a look at what is there at the moment??
Shaun
11 March 2008, 08:11 PM
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I think you have guessed right ! It's a Hitachi 30.1GB drive attached by a single flat multipin connector. IDE Then 
The Laptop died by the screen saying it can't find the operating system..it POST's OK and I can get into the BIOS which leads me to think it's the drive.....both the kids deny dropping it (which means one of them did LOL)
Any idea for a good place to get a new IDE drive............errr and an operating system to go on it
Cheers
Shaun
The Laptop died by the screen saying it can't find the operating system..it POST's OK and I can get into the BIOS which leads me to think it's the drive.....both the kids deny dropping it (which means one of them did LOL)
Any idea for a good place to get a new IDE drive............errr and an operating system to go on it
Cheers
Shaun
26 March 2008, 11:33 AM
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Anybody who brought these beaware --- neither Dell nor Seagate will warrenty these drives -- and the OP aint bothered once he has your money.
26 March 2008, 12:44 PM
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I broke one .... nice .... no proof of that, that is how it arrived.
this is the first time I have ever been accused of breaking a hd by just using it. Seatools reports problem internally. It is more likely to have been broken due to the way it was packed and sent. Not sure what the other buyers thought but a jiffy bag of the paper padding type and not bubble type is not a secure way to send 3 hd's. Especially when you know they are going to drop though a letter box. That was the thud I heard as the postman delivered it!
this is the first time I have ever been accused of breaking a hd by just using it. Seatools reports problem internally. It is more likely to have been broken due to the way it was packed and sent. Not sure what the other buyers thought but a jiffy bag of the paper padding type and not bubble type is not a secure way to send 3 hd's. Especially when you know they are going to drop though a letter box. That was the thud I heard as the postman delivered it!
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27 March 2008, 09:03 PM
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I wouldnt have bought one if I wanted a warranty, I would have got one from a retailer and paid the extra
Im sure mine is hitachi and not seagate, although I could be wrong
Mine was packaged ok, and IIRC pushed through the letter box onto a tiled floor
Im sure mine is hitachi and not seagate, although I could be wrong
Mine was packaged ok, and IIRC pushed through the letter box onto a tiled floor
27 March 2008, 09:38 PM
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If you have a dell part as was the ones that I had then dell use a mix of suppliers but most will still apply the same warrenty situation.
Mine were not packed ok - as simple as - I will post a pic later to see if we got the same packaging
28 March 2008, 12:23 AM
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As i said in my PM, they were packed fine as were all my other packages i sent out, 11 happy customers so far.
i knew as soon as you emailed me when you received them you`d be tryin it on,from the way you spent 3 lines describing the day/scene and sound of the delivery,but hey,moan as much as you want, i know they worked when sent and were packed fine,as sonic agrees.
i knew as soon as you emailed me when you received them you`d be tryin it on,from the way you spent 3 lines describing the day/scene and sound of the delivery,but hey,moan as much as you want, i know they worked when sent and were packed fine,as sonic agrees.
28 March 2008, 12:48 AM
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As i said in my PM, they were packed fine as were all my other packages i sent out, 11 happy customers so far.
i knew as soon as you emailed me when you received them you`d be tryin it on,from the way you spent 3 lines describing the day/scene and sound of the delivery,but hey,moan as much as you want, i know they worked when sent and were packed fine,as sonic agrees.
i knew as soon as you emailed me when you received them you`d be tryin it on,from the way you spent 3 lines describing the day/scene and sound of the delivery,but hey,moan as much as you want, i know they worked when sent and were packed fine,as sonic agrees.
3 hd's in static bags with no padding straight into this? And thats packed fine
"tryin it on" - why would I for what benefit. I wanted 3 working discs. Not 2 and a load of grief? You could of taken all the serial numbers before sending them out - I would not know if you had or hadn't. So you first remark about the fact that I had swapped it with another faulty drive would of been stupid.
and how on each could I try it on when this is the result - so you are saying that I received them and managed to screw with internal results of seagates own tool.
And even though I went to the effort of contacing dell and seagate to find the info - you won't even provide the name of your factory so I can try and take a warrenty through Dell.
"were packed fine,as sonic agrees"
Sonic - were yours packed this way ?
28 March 2008, 01:20 AM
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Mine was in a proper padded jiffy bag (not the bubble wrap type, the stronger padded type) and then that was filled with paper (tissue type paper), and then sealed inside that in an anti static bag
29 March 2008, 06:02 PM
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If these are brand new why are they not in boxes? all of our hard disks come in boxes that are about 4 times the size needed but then again HP always over engineers it's packaging.