benjester January 23, 2007 Share benjester Member January 23, 2007 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo January 23, 2007 Share Cujo Member January 23, 2007 the interfaces are all backwards compatible. your biggest issue is going to be size. i wouldn't go above 80gb because the bios may not recognize the right size. to be honest i'd stick with a 40-60gb drive. if he needs more storage then get an external drive. that said, any 4200rpm drive of 40gb will work for sure and you should be fine going up to a 5400rpm drive which is what i'd recommend. if it was me i'd get a 60gb 5400rpm drive with 8mb cache. just checked the specs online and i would seriously upgrade to 512mb of ram on that thing if it's not already at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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