Should I replace my harddrive, or do I have options?

August 8, 2005 7:35 PM

I popped in a Win2000 disk into my Toshiba laptop (600 Mhz Celeron Satellite). Proceeded to reformat into FAT32 and it claimed that the disk has errors and refuses to format. No information lost but I've been looking at harddrives and they're priced at $65 and higher. Specs for the replacement harddrive are [2.5 inch - ATA-100 - 44 pin IDC - 4200 rpm - buffer: 8 MB]. I don't want to pay that kind of money for a relatively worthless computer. What can I do? Thanks in advance.
posted by SeizeTheDay to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Best answer: I have a Toshiba MK6014MAP HDD2144 6GB drive gathering dust that I took out of a Compaq Armada m700. It's a 2.5 inch, 44 pin, 4200 RPM drive that does up to UDMA-66. Email me with your shipping address if you want it.
posted by rfs at 8:54 PM on August 8, 2005

I would suggest formatting it and installing with Win98SE first. Win 2K doesn't play well with other methods for installation, but it will usually load if win98 is present.
posted by ptm at 8:57 PM on August 8, 2005

Best thing to do: accept rfs's offer :)
posted by Grensgeval at 3:10 AM on August 9, 2005