Hello Adrien,
I'm no expert in what to replace it with but I don't think it'll be an issue.
I would seriously suggest, though, that the machine is left powered on until
you get the data backed up. Hard disks, I believe, suffer the most stress and
are most likely to fail when being initially powered on.
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Adrien Collins
Sent: 11 June 2015 01:35
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Subject: [access-uk] buying a hard drive
Hi
My Dad's hard drive on his pc almost failed earlier last night, something
crashed, only by sheer luck we were able to get it going again, mum tried for
hours, not sure what happened but something crashed and after 30 attempts and a
hard reset by turning the electric off at the rear of the pc it started again,
they tried to run windows back through but nothing was seeing the drive but it
seems ok now. But I have a question, I don't know much yet but I was thinking
of getting a spare hard drive to keep in stock in case it goes completely, what
do I need to look for, amazon has them reasonable, I have never got a drive
like this, only usb drives, what should I look for? Mum is going to give me the
mother board details. It has a 500 gb sata drive in now.
Regards
Adrien
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