grober
MB Master
Hi Howard, off the back of your thread I realised I had a perfectly usable laptop myself upstairs which has been inactive for about 2 years due to hard drive failure (this beast cost me about £2K at the time it was made - it really was all singing all dancing at the time I bought it!) and so I looked into HD prices, they've really come down!! So I ordered a 120 gig off the internet and installed it a few days ago - The BEAST is back!! lol It cost me £45
If it hadn't been for your thread I wouldn't have known how cheap HD's had become, nor would it have spurred me on to fix it - so cheers matey!
I hope you manage to install your one as easily as I did mine, it took all of 10 minutes to take the old one out and put the new one in - actually a hint - for ages we thought there was a missing fitting off of the new one, but there was a pull off black connector from the old one which fitted on the new one....and it took about half an hour to use the original discs to restore windows...you should find it just as easy hopefully!
Just make sure when you go online you get all the current security updates to Windows and your antivirus/firewall programmes as a priority. 2 years is a long time for malware writers to devise new ways to damage/hack your system. Well done on the resurrection.
