Replacing a hard drive

beer enigma

Sorry did a search but couldn't find what I was looking for and don't want to make an expensive mistake !

My wife dropped her laptop and the disk head has gone, the disk itself is (was) a "Hitachi HTS54505089a300 500GB 2.5in SATA 3GB/s 5400rpm" - just wondering do I have to replace it with a sata III disk or will a sata II disk do

I've seen PCWorld to a 320 sata III disk for €69 ish http://www.pcworld.ie/Product/WD-Mainstream-25-Internal-Hard-Drive-320-GB/315981/128.2

Is this good value & will is just fit in ?

Secondly, I've a product key for windows 7 Home Premium but no disk - how do I go about getting new media to use with the original key.

Again, apologies if its been asked, but thought this was the best place to get the right info

Allyall

Andip wrote: »

Sorry did a search but couldn't find what I was looking for and don't want to make an expensive mistake !

My wife dropped her laptop and the disk head has gone, the disk itself is (was) a "Hitachi HTS54505089a300 500GB 2.5in SATA 3GB/s 5400rpm" - just wondering do I have to replace it with a sata III disk or will a sata II disk do

I've seen PCWorld to a 320 sata III disk for €69 ish http://www.pcworld.ie/Product/WD-Mainstream-25-Internal-Hard-Drive-320-GB/315981/128.2

Is this good value & will is just fit in ?

Secondly, I've a product key for windows 7 Home Premium but no disk - how do I go about getting new media to use with the original key.

Again, apologies if its been asked, but thought this was the best place to get the right info

Sata drives will all fit, like USB.
Sata Explained I, II, and III

Get Windows 7 Home Premium directly from here - [Official Files]

32 Bit - http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24208.iso
64 Bit - http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24209.iso

More info here - https://sites.google.com/site/linuxlablibrary/windows-iso


320GB for €69 is NOT good value (I never checked how amazing that drive may be, but it's unlikely you need one that would be priced correctly that high.)

Amazon is a good way to judge correct price.

EDIT.
Some good price markers here.
500GB averages around €50 - http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/catalog/zkb_01opsl/12_hddint/default.aspx?gclid=CKexhtLNxbwCFZShtAod1j8ASw

http://www.dabs.ie/category/components-and-storage,hard-drives,internal-hard-drives/11154-370810000-450730000

http://www.memoryc.ie/products/type/Storage_Products/Internal_Hard_Drives/index.html#Capacity=500GB&Form_Factor=Notebook+HDD&page=0

beer enigma

Thats brilliant, thanks ever so much for taking the time to reply so comprehensively