Lan Barnes wrote:
A friend of mine who shall go nameless has a laptop he used at work that
is going to be replaced. An IBM of recent vintage. His employer wishes to
remove the perfectly good hard drive and crush it for reasons that shall
go unstated. He could keep the rest. He asked me how much it would cost to
have a new HD put in to it, and I was pessimistic that it could be done
reasonably, because all my laptop update questions would have cost 75% of
a new one.
Any suggestions?
Probably about $100-$150 for a new drive and $50 or so in labor to
replace the drive. Hard drives generally are made to be pretty easy to
replace (exception: Apple) and their connectors are standard.
The only thing to watch out for is that it might have some kind of
proprietary adapter which changes from parallel ATA to a hot-swappable
edge connection (Dell has this). The best way to check is to pull the
drive and scarf the connector if it has one.
-a
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