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[Ventus]

um...what do you mean by what type? of Hard drive?

[Old-Skool]

the crashed drive was being used as the main one. I need to make sure I'm buying the right stuff. I could also use some installatiion instruction. Anyone get a hold of Bengal? aask around on irc, someone there can get a hold of him.

[Ventus]

Okay first thing is Find out what type of hard drive you have?

By taking out the hard drive

1. Take out the dead hard drive. and look at the connector that was connecting the hard drive to the PSU and the mother board
Okay now there is two types of Connectors

On the upper half of the image Is a white molox power Connector
And the grey Wire is called a IDE cable
Which a old type of Connectors that most old drives use

Okay on the bottem Half is What they a Sata Connectors
Which is like The ones above Kinda But smaller
A new standard in new computers.

2. Look at your hard drive and see what type you have

3.Buy the Hard drive you need

4.On the old Drive There should be a place by the Connectors
That has these little Things they are called "jumpers"
They set the hard drives Position of Master or slave
They look like this


5. With new drive look at the manual and find out what The jumper layout is on it
Once Done set it to master

6. Look at old drive See if you can find the Jumper settings on it There should be a diagram
On the drive itself

7.After that is all done put both drives in the computer
Make sure you enough power And Data wires Connectors
To Connect both drives once thats out of the way

8. Turn on computer Install a new Os on the new drive
After that Recover said data from other drive
To the new drive

Now thats what i know okay hope that can help a little
Thats a little guide i made for you

Edited by Ventus, 01 October 2011 - 03:09 PM.

[Old-Skool]

Model: Sony Vaio PCV-7732

[Ventus]

Is that the model of the Computer or hard drive?

[Old-Skool]

computer

[Ventus]

Okaay? I what do you need a Manual or what
Mm....Idk about that model at all
I can not find any thing on this model at all :-\
Yeah some should try to get a hold of some one With more computer exp
Sorry i can not help any more

[Old-Skool]

Alright. I need a desktop PATA drive. Can someone quote me the Best Buy cost for one?

[Ben]

Best Buy in this area doesn't even carry PATA drives anymore. Which is kind of dumb, lots of people still use them, but whatever.

Your best bet is Newegg or TigerDirect at this point. Here is a basic search result list for compatible drives on Newegg. (Don't get a Maxtor; that brand was discontinued years ago. Any listed Maxtor drives are refurbished and probably won't last very long.)

Anyway, your original problem was that some miscellaneous (but still serious) hardware failure occurred in your hard drive and was failing the diagnostic test performed at boot time (called a SMART test.)

If you can boot from a Linux LiveCD, you can find out definitively if the data on the disk is salvageable or not.

Edited by Bagel, 01 October 2011 - 08:22 PM.

[Old-Skool]

haha the one that died was maxtor. stepdad says there should still be a best buy somewhere around here that carries Western Digital-brand desktop PATA... but I need to find out how much they cost (ESPECIALLY ONE WITH OVER 60 GIGS. I KNOW YOU'RE LIKE "WUT 2-DIGIT GIGS ARE STILL SOLD LOL" BUT SERIOUSLY PLEEZ I'D LIKE TO HAVE THE MEMORY TO PLAY MINECRAFT AND TERRARIA LIKE THE OTHER BOYS)

In other news, I'm glad to see you're still around Bagel. happy October

also theres nothing worth salvaging on the maxtor, it was all just for stuff like the OS and I can reinstall that easy.

Edited by King Aquamentus, 01 October 2011 - 08:39 PM.

[Old-Skool]

UPDATE:

Western Digital brand
desktop PATA hard drive
"Caviar Blue"
320 gigs
status: installed.

this is the same exact kind of drive as my slave, brand and all, only this holds 70 more gigs. In other words, may slowness never plague me again.

I have to make one more trip to best buy: we have no canned air, with which to dust. that probably didnt cause the failure, but better to be safe

alright heres hoping im back in IRC soon.

[Ventus]

Thats good to hear
I wish you all the luck in the world

[Old-Skool]

Installing Windows. Hope I dont partition it wrong.

[Ventus]

I'm sure you can do it right, I mean you made it this far
With it so far

I'll say installing windows isn't that hard as long as you know what you are doing
That is which i'm sure you know what your doing since you made it this far

[Old-Skool]

when it restarted during the installation there was a disk read error.?