My hard disk crashed. Who makes the *best* drive to replace it with?
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I've always good luck with Seagate's and Hitachi's.\n\nYou can get a Seagate 300GB Internal Serial ATA Hard Drive from Best Buy for about $190 and it's a 7200 rpm for fast read/write times.
466614
run scandisk and make sure you check the option to scan the surface area for physical damage.  If your computer seems to be running slower and there is a kind of grinding noise coming from the drive, it's probably time to replace it before losing all of your data.
1119743
JUst change the HDD with another brand type HDD. Try Western Digital, they are pretty good at hard drives.
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take it to any technician. dont do anything yourself u dont know about. u r facing this problkem b/c it fell down. harddisk is most likely a sensitive equipment. always be careful with it.
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if you don't want replace this hard drive, the best bet is - do a thorough disk check on it. this will mark all bad sectors and will take them out of use.\nafter you start that disk check you will be requested to reboot the system, do so and let it run.
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Sure. Software like OnTrack can replace your data in a heartbeat. It can recover data even if the drive has been formatted many times. If you don't want to buy OnTrack, find a local computer shop. Most good ones have it.
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I've used all three a great many times and all three are just as good.\n\nI actually have 4 hard drives in my PCs, 600 gigs, 2 WD's and 2 Maxtor's.\n\nI would just go with whatever you can get the best price on.
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As the other post mentioned OEM is your best option. This is the company I use for all my purchases (personal and for customers) if ordering over the internet. Since you mentioned $200 I'm guessing you're talking about Windows XP Pro. \nhttp://www.directron.com/oemxpro2v1pk.html\n\nAlso you can buy OEM through Fry's Online (a.k.a. Outpost)\nhttp://shop3.outpost.com/%7BBHZpe6ahv2pl2U7QoYVZOw**.node1%7D/product/4582367;jsessionid=BHZpe6ahv2pl2U7QoYVZOw**.node1?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG\n\nAlso, remember that if you have the media you don't need to buy another version, you can reinstall it and just a hard drive change won't be a problem.
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i would go for Maxtor, Seagate or WesternDigi\nalmost same quality, but i think WesternDigi is the cheaper one..\n80Gb or 100Gb should be below 100$ with a normal casing
311685
The answer is really nothing if the hard drive fails completely.  Best solution is to call the manufacture and order the CD's it may cost you $30 but it is well worth it.  You can also clone the drive over to another drive but this would require some computer knowledge on what to do.
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You can use software like "FinalData2", I have been in this before and helped someone here in Yahoo Answers to recover his hard drive (Check my best answers).\nIf you like I can go again with you and help you too, send me your e-mail, and mark me as best answers.\n\nXLMan
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ask around. i have like 4 disks of it from various motherboards and drives i have purchased. i'm sure people you know have extras lying around.\n\n[edit] sorry i was talking about system mechanic. i'm sure reg mechanic is out there. somewhere. (hint: don't "kickme".)
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Try Filelodge, or Photobucket, both are free... but beware, if there servers crash your pics are gone! External hard drives are cheep, 100gig for $60-$70 I use one for my music & pictures...
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There are two ways that immediately come to mind, fixing it yourself with Norton Utilities, or sending it to a company like DriveSavers.\n\nNorton Utilities has the ability to scan a crashed hard disk and allow you to copy the contents to another drive. This works well with hard disks with "soft" crashes (The FAT table is corrupt, the drive forgets where files are)\n\nIf the drive has physically crashed, your only option may be a company like DriveSavers. They actually take your drive into a clean room, remove the platters, and put them into a new mechanism, then try to recover your data. They have a high success rate, but they often charge hundreds, if not thousands to recover your data.\n\nAs for preventing this, other than not kicking or dropping your computer, there isn't much you can do to prevent a hard disk crash. Always make sure your critical data is backed up!
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QUICKLY SALVAGE THE HARD DRIVE!!!\n\nGO FOR THE HARD DRIVE!!!!!\n\nFASTER!!!!!!
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Check the Device Manager and make sure you have the proper drivers installed. If your PC recognizes it, (or it doesn't) and it doesn't read a known good disk, the drive is bad. Replace! You can also go to 'My Computer' and make sure Windows recognizes it there.
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you need a new DRIVE take it to a PC repair shop.