Crazyface
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I've got an old Dell Vostro 1000 and the HDD is playing up. If the LT is moved, crash. Can I put in any 2.5 SATA drive? Oh and how do I copy the stuff from one to the other? :thup:
New HDD for Laptop (Help)
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Paul77
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Buy a Samsung PRO 850 SSD. One of the best and fastest drives on the market. It'll be worth it honest. Upgrade to Windows 10, then create a recovery image in windows 10 onto a DVD. Load the new SSD and then recover the image to the new SSD. You could also just upgrade to Windows 10 and get an ISO image of the same OS of Windows 10 and install it fresh on the SSD. All you have to do is log into Win10 with your MS ID and it'll activate it for you.
Hope that makes sense.
Hope that makes sense.
PhilTheFragger
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What CPU has it got and how much RAM
The Vostro 1000 goes back to 2007. so it could be 8 years old running xp or vista with an AMD Sempron cpu and 1Gb of RAM in which case I wouldnt bother
Start the PC, Left click start, RIGHT click My Computer, Left click Properties Everything is on that window
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The Vostro 1000 goes back to 2007. so it could be 8 years old running xp or vista with an AMD Sempron cpu and 1Gb of RAM in which case I wouldnt bother
Start the PC, Left click start, RIGHT click My Computer, Left click Properties Everything is on that window
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GreiginFife
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2007 could also be an IDE hard drive so even worse.
On checking does seem to be sATA. Spec seems to suggest cost of SSD would outweigh any performance benefit.
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Paul77
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I stick SSDs into laptops like these in work all the time and re-image them with MDK and they go like a dream (with another 1Gb RAM in them too) saved our accountant a fortune. Pity they don't pay me more.
It's a lot cheaper than buying a new laptop. The old anything you buy now will be faster saying applies here too, but seeing they are still firing 5400rpm drives into new latops it's hardly a great speed increase. I vote SSD upgrade all day long on any SATA based system.
It's a lot cheaper than buying a new laptop. The old anything you buy now will be faster saying applies here too, but seeing they are still firing 5400rpm drives into new latops it's hardly a great speed increase. I vote SSD upgrade all day long on any SATA based system.
Crazyface
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Thanks for the answers everyone....but I should have said, I only use the laptop for karaoke and have all of that stored on an external hdd so only need to pop in a 120 /160 ish hdd and copy across win 7 from the other hdd with the software thats on it. It won't upgrade to more that 2gm ram either.
so will any sata drive do the trick? I've never had to change a hdd before.
so will any sata drive do the trick? I've never had to change a hdd before.
Paul77
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Yes any SATA drive will do for that type of thing. Depends what you think is playing up though. Could be anything really. Unless its dead and not making weird noises it might be something else. Probably need more info to be sure of what's going on.
Crazyface
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Any slight movement of the laptop and squiggley lines and....crash.
