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Ok one of my hard drives on my desk top went out. Half of it is gone and the other half of the partition looks like its about to go. I didn't really lose any data I just need a new hard drive. Now can I just buy any internal hard drive or do I need to buy a particular type? I'm not exactly the best when it comes to this kind of thing.
Any feed back will be very helpful.
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How old is your computer? Most computers now a days use Sata Hard Drives and their relatively cheap, you can get a 250 gig one for about 60-70$, I would store all the valuable stuff asap a couple of disks, once they start to go they go pretty quick.
But yea your best bet is to get a Sata HDD, unless your computer is ancient, you can tell if you have a sata hdd by opening up your case, check the connections coming from the power supply, sata connections are thin and sleek, while the IDE/ 4 pin molar connections are big and bulky and have to be plugged into an 4 prong output.
hope that helps
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The computer is about 5 years old or so. I got it when the Nvidia 6800 was the best video card out there. I'll look at it latter tonight o see if it is SATA.
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Did you lose any data?
Had that happen to me a wile ago. 2 partitions on a single drive. Lost the mfd or fat table, something like that. Almost lost everything. I bought a nice little recovery program that was able to get most everything back off. If you need to recover anything, let me know. I can pick up the drive and see what I can do.
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I have a IDE drive but my mother board can work with a SATA drive. Which one should I get?
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if you set your computer up correctly you should get a sata 2 if your mobo can take it other wise just a sata they are faster than ide
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