hard drive

Hi all, Doe's anybody know a good supplier where I can get a hard drive (ST3250620AS) or the equivilent as mine's making so much noise lately, And I think it's about to give up the ghost, details

Windows Vista Home Premium (32bit)

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" if the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts" Albert Einstein

I think that's a SATA drive. Any old SATA from http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/products/a502x1y0... should fit the bill. Personally I'd go for at least a 500GB replacement.

Thanks John ordered one from play.com no postage

Grahame

"From the man of Kent that lives in Gwent

" if the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts" Albert Einstein

Post deleted by 12eason

Personally I'd go for at least a 500GB replacement.

I wouldn't, [censored] nightmare when you have to defrag them or do low level data recovery on one that big.

Phil

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Sensible partitioning would solve any defrag issues but you're right about recovery processes. However, with decent backup provision in place, even that shouldn't present too much of a problem.

Defrag? Is that some archaic Windows invocation? I force a disk check once a month whether I need it or not on all disks/partitions, takes about quarter of an hour.

If you have bought a "large" new drive (>250GB say) it may be worth asking for advice on how to partition it for use under Vista. As others have posted there may be better solutions than a single partition occupying the whole drive. Typically, under Windows, the first partition will be C:, with subsequent partitions being named D:, E:, etc. (just saying this to point out there is no problem in accessing the other partitions).

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I force a disk check once a month whether I need it or not.

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