Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500 GB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive
My Compaq Presario notebook had the hard drive fail. Although new PC's with these features fell in the under $400 range, I really didn't want to spend that much money to replace a notebook that was otherwise working well. I called a few local computer repair shops and the quotes over the telephone were just stupid $$. I am not a computer geek but am fairly handy so I thought I would try the repair myself. If I completely failed, I would not be out that much money.
I ordered a full set of recovery discs from HP online that arrived in just a few days and I ordered a new hard drive and new RAM for the PC from Amazon.
The install of the hardware was amazingly simple and the only tool needed was a small Phillips head screw driver. There are actually quite a few good instructional videos about the process on Youtube. The install of the operating system on the new hard drive was time consuming but not difficult.
The only fly in the ointment was the RAM upgrade that I purchased. I bought a 4gig upgrade set and the original configuration of this notebook was 512K. The computer would not boot with both of the new RAM cards installed. After experimenting, I was only able to use one of the 2 gig RAM cards and one of the original 256K cards but this did get me 2.2gig of RAM, which did result in a faster machine.
The end result was a notebook that has more hard drive storage, operates faster than before and I saved myself a boat load of cash. The hardware arrived quickly and as promised and I am once again a very satisfied Amazon customer.
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