So, a customer brings a personal laptop to work to have me look at it... Windows won't boot... software error... follow the rabbit hole, and the drive suffered shock damage... total loss.
Laptop is a HP Pavilion ZE4300 model ze4325us.
It has a Hitachi Travelstart model IC25N040ATCS04-0, otherwise known as a Travelstar 40GN.
It uses ATA-5 standard... you can't buy a -5 standard anymore... HP wants 425 for replacment part...
Can I get something like
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...&CatId=2342
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822149039
to replace the drive. The first drive is the same physical size I believe, but uses ata-7 and the second uses ata-6... are they backwards compatible...
any recommendations?