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February 1st, 2013, 12:55 PM
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[RESOLVED] Help choosing a new hard drive
Hello gang!!
I hav ean older Dell 4700c that needs a new hard drive. It has been replaced once already with a Western Digital "WD2500JD-77HBC0 250GIG but now it is bad. Could someone point me to a replacement that is not crazy expensive.
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February 1st, 2013, 01:09 PM
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February 1st, 2013, 01:19 PM
#3
What do you think of this one? Will it work in my Dell 4700c? Dell site says it is the recomennded replacement.
Thanks Train
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February 1st, 2013, 01:45 PM
#4
So I ordered the Western Digital Blue WD5000aakx 500 gig.
Now my question is...Once I install it I see that Western Digital has a download that will re-install all my stuff off the bad drive. Should I go that route? How does that work?
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February 1st, 2013, 02:40 PM
#5
OK, if you follow the prompts correctly, it will clone your hdd to the new one and it will be bootable.
Used that program several times myself. But I like to hang onto the old drive for a few weeks, untouched of coarse, as A just incase insurance.
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February 2nd, 2013, 12:20 AM
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How though?
So when the new drive arrives what do I physically do? Do I have to buy some special cables or something? New one comes out of the shipping package and then how do I link one to the other?
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February 2nd, 2013, 01:14 AM
#7
You would need to connect the new drive into your computer as a slave/secondary drive, along with the old drive. Boot from the WD software (Actually a version of Acronis Trueimage), then follow the instructions in the manual section 15.
http://support.wdc.com/product/downl...l.asp?swid=119
However, I wouldn't get your hopes up. Cloning was meant to copy a good drive to another good drive. It depends on how bad the original drive is. Acronis will only be able to copy what it sees. Garbage in, garbage out.
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February 2nd, 2013, 11:16 AM
#8
Ok
Yes. That is what I kinda figured. I'll just reinstall everything as I normally would. Thanks everyone!!!
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