[pchelpers] Re: Laptop died

Ellen M wrote:
> update. I looked at the old HDD. it is a Hitachi Travelstar ATA/IDE. the new 
> one is EIDE......
>   whimper, whimper. The boy at Best Buy said it was the right one.
>   Ellen
> Ellen M <ejmay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   Hi, Scott,
> Yes I replaced the internal HDD. The physical snap in & out was easy. I think 
> I need a DOS level driver. I went to Western Digital, but didn't have enough 
> time to really follow thru... I copied a file, unzipped, burned to CD, but no 
> go. At least I got a new error message :-)
> 
> Ellen 
> Scott McNay wrote:
> 
> Hi Ellen,
> 
> Wednesday, June 27, 2007, 3:44:29 PM, you wrote:
> 
> EM> I spent $90 for 80G HDD laptop EIDE. also $80 for 80G portable
> EM> UBS backup drive. I put in the HDD,
> EM> Recovery disks, but it tells me invalid destination drive???
> 
> You replaced the old internal drive with the new internal drive?
> 
There is a lot of information out there about these standards. This page 
has answers to many of the questions on ATA.
http://www.ata-atapi.com/hiwfaq.htm
How it works:
http://www.ata-atapi.com/hiw.htm
Information for developers:
http://www.ata-atapi.com/
EIDE definition:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/EIDE.html

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