I need a new Hardrive

[Rikard]

Hello,

 

Iv been having computer problems latly, and i now need a new hard drive, im after a replacment for the current one i have, i need a

 

"Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 9 160GB" or a later edition of it,

 

It came in my Dell XPS last year, i had a look on the PC World website, but they only do their "HITACHI" hard drives, i looked on Ebay, they had some second hand ones but i need a new one (as i don't want to loose all my data again)

 

If anyone can post up any links where i can find hard drives on the web, preferbly UK sites then i would be very gratful, as at the moment im on the old PC that is very slow and annoying me

 

thanks for any help

 

Rikard

[swerve]

lo m8

 

try places like this, i have ordered from most. great service. you will need to check site to see if they have what you want

 

www.scan.co.uk

 

www.microdirect.co.uk

 

www.overclockers.co.uk

 

www.aria.co.uk

 

im sure you find one of these selling what you want

 

regards

swerve

 

 

[Rikard]

Thanks Swerve thats a big help, i also found another good link,

 

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/home.html

 

i found the over clock website the best,

 

thanks again Swerve!

 

 

 

[Pedz 212]

help if u said the type of hard drive u was lookin for ....ide or sata

 

 

overclockers 4 pc's on and been gr8 service and no problems,real gd prices and gr8 offers weekly

[Rikard]

help if u said the type of hard drive u was lookin for ....ide or sata

 

Im after a SATA hard drive, no bigger than 200 GB,

 

Im after performance, i wanna get one with 16 mb cache,

 

Iv been looking at Western Digital drives (iv been told there're the best?)

 

Iv searched loads, as i said i want one with 16mb cache, be good if it was 200GB or less, any ideas or advice from the pro's?

 

 

Rikard

[Pedz 212]

i have a raptor 74gig and its fast and i got a 120 gig for all my crap

 

 

u can now get a 150 gig

Edited April 16, 2006 by Pedz 212

[swerve]

rikard go for a raptor 150gb if you stretch to that, about £220 i think if not the 74gb. they spin 10000rpm . over others that are 72000rpm. you will notice differents in loading time etc.

 

swerve

Edited April 16, 2006 by swerve

[Rikard]

Good and Bad news,

 

I no longer need to pay out for a new hard drive, i managed to get the current one to work,

 

It had lots of faults and curptions on it, i put it in another PC , went into BIOS and set it as a slave drive, and run a repare program on it, it also found a Virus, so i cleaned that up, i could see my files on the drive, but i couldn't copy them from it cause it was still too curpt.

 

So i put the bad drive back in the orignal PC, pressed Ctrl & F11 at start up, entered the partition, and copyed a fresh copy of Windows over,

 

I lost EVERYTHING, and had to re-install everything,

 

every cloud has a silver lining though, when i re-installed Norton back onto my formated drive it didn't know it was on before, so it restarted my my years subscription!

 

So if your anti virus runs out, just re-format your hard drive!! lol

 

A lesson to everyone is Back Up all your important files on disk or external drive or somthing.

 

Thanks guys for your help and relpys, even though i didn't end up needing them they were still helpful

 

Rikard

Edited April 16, 2006 by Rikard