Need replacement hard drive for 770ED

[reset]

Well it appears my hard drive is failing. I will need a replacement hard drive for my 9549-5AU. I am not looking for anything huge. 6 or 8 GB would be enough. I did some searching and couldn't find any recommendations. Is the hard drive in this unit a standard configuration and does anyone have a recommendation as to the brand of unit I should be looking for.

Thanks in advance.

Oliver

[AbsoluteRaleigh]

Well it appears my hard drive is failing. I will need a replacement hard drive for my 9549-5AU. I am not looking for anything huge. 6 or 8 GB would be enough. I did some searching and couldn't find any recommendations. Is the hard drive in this unit a standard configuration and does anyone have a recommendation as to the brand of unit I should be looking for.

Thanks in advance.

Oliver

A standard drive will work fine.

Since you are looking for a smaller drie you will have to go used. There are a lot of Hitachi & IBM Travelstar drives out there with some life left to them although any drive will be fine.

[whizkid]

Any drive should indeed work. However, I would recommend a drive new enough to have Fluid Dynamic Bearings. They are much quiter and the bearing should last much longer. I found that for a few more dollars, you can double the capacity of the drive you're buying.

I know FDB drives are as small as 20GB but may be smaller. That may or may not deter you from using one.

I have a 12GB (non-FDB) drive in my 750P, which also has an 8GB BIOS limit. The BIOS sees 8GB, but any modern OS that doesn't use the BIOS (like Windows 95 with 32 bit drivers or later, or Linux) can see and use the whole drive. You just have to make sure that the partition that boots is under the 8GB barrier.

So you can have an 8GB C: drive and a 12GB D: drive if you like. I have a 2GB PC-DOS partition, a 2GB FreeDOS partition, and for Linux, small /boot and swap partitions and a 7GB / partition.

[AlphaKilo470]

The Pentium II based 770's I think can support just about any hard drive you can buy today. I'm not sure, but I think the 770's with Pentium II's had the same chipset as the 600E and the 570, which can go up to 130gb. You could probably find a cheap 20 or 40gb hard drive on eBay, which is what I'd shoot for because unless your laptop computer is incapable of going above 8gb, hard drives of that size and lower are barely worth the money, unless you can get one for free.