help with figuring out which hard drive...

enfield_freddy

when the OP posted the first link , showing a listing for his model of laptop , and a link showing a photo of the drive , a quick check on the MFG site showed that it was a sata 3 drive , not an IDE one




I think you are just clouding the water , by stating historic facts that have no relation to the currant situation

Strider590

enfield_freddy wrote: »

when the OP posted the first link , showing a listing for his model of laptop , and a link showing a photo of the drive , a quick check on the MFG site showed that it was a sata 3 drive , not an IDE one




I think you are just clouding the water , by stating historic facts that have no relation to the currant situation

OP said it was an old laptop, FACT.

What i've said is still perfectly relavent because manufacturers quite often restrict what hard drives can be used in their systems, even to within a certain pool of serial numbers.

The stupid thing to do, would be to go out and buy a new HDD without checking whether such restrictions might exist for that make/model.

I'm advising the OP to do some research, check the make/model to make sure they don't buy something incompatible.

enfield_freddy

I'm advising the OP to do some research, check the make/model to make sure they don't buy something incompatible.


the model is a Sony Viao sve151d11m and the drive that was fitted at the factory is a toshiba mq01abd050

OP said it was an old laptop, FACT.

yes it is old , but not vintage it is a modern circit board and a modern CPU , and a STANDARD sata laptop drive


I again think you are clouding the water ,


hard drive sizes as you pointed out with your comments about HPA partitions (to fool the bios) are a legacy of the old IDE drive days,


there are still some problems when accessing huge (think many terabytes) drives on some sata systems , however the OP is talking about a small capacity (and size) sata 2 drive

cem

Lol..gents/ladies clam your knickers!

this is all online and it doesnt matter in the real world

For the record, I am still grateful to all that replied and answered the original question

tronator

Strider590 wrote: »

What i've said is still perfectly relavent because manufacturers quite often restrict what hard drives can be used in their systems, even to within a certain pool of serial numbers.

Don't exaggerate it if this exists at all. I never came across this problem.

Cisco001

You should be looking at 2.5" SATA.

How much GB do you usually use?

If you don't need a lot of storage, you can consider SSD.
I suggest 250GB, but you may think it is a bit pricey.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/crucial-internal-hard-drive-ct250bx100ssd1

If you need a bit of storage, I suggest you get Hybrid drive or 7200rpm instead of cheap 5400rpm.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st1000lm014

https://www.google.co.uk/shopping/product/18096513145540266925?q=western+digital+scorpio+black+1tb+2.5&espv=2&biw=1289&bih=563&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.85970519,d.ZGU&ion=1&tch=1&ech=1&psi=ba7kVMGpA4m27gblrYDwCw.1424273005648.5&prds=paur:ClkAsKraX46YUWFt2C-6_QgDrByUS_otzSIU1KMIy0KytWXRIqbA_flsKSv2EW2trjbUKozouCR8xVjlRkH2K7cUsKfv1GGpoFN96CzgrGZYr8gjcBio1dP3KBIZAFPVH71VGP6W-MIxKyeC8moUeVZJ6qQ65g&sa=X&ei=dq7kVK-IMtKy7Qb-0oHwBg&ved=0CHYQ8wIwAQ

bluesnake

tronator wrote: »

Don't exaggerate it if this exists at all. I never came across this problem.

Those thinkpad600 were a real pain. The PC bios boot could be P/W and the drive could be p/w with different p/w. This drive was also encrypted via the HDD p/w, and you could not just plug it it into any controller to be read either. Fortunately I had only the Mboard p/w to deal with, and once done, the rest worked, as it was the same p/w.

stuart07970

Get a cheap SSD - period.

enfield_freddy

stuart07970 wrote: »

Get a cheap SSD - period.

as per the first reply to the posting


"if you are only using the laptop for a bit of browsing etc , and not much storage then a ssd would be better 60g minimum http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Tec...4&keywords=ssd "