S wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> It sounds like your hard drive will be dead soon, or at least become too
>> burdensome. The clicks are not very unusual from my experience. I have
>> had 3 different hard drives in my Presario and the clicking sometimes
>> starts before a hard drive gets completely unusable.
>>
>> Make back-ups and get a new drive with faster RPM and whatever volume you
>> need until you dump this laptop.
>
> Thanks for your reply, Roy. This is what I feared!
You are lucky! You still get the warning signs so you can react.
> I'd like to put a slightly larger hard drive in, perhaps a 40GB. How do I
> know if the BIOS supports it?
I don't think there should be an issue. Make sure it fits your laptop,
physically. They don't all come in one size.
> There's no information available from Sony
> whatsoever!
>
> Also, what's the general thought about Samsung notebook hard drives?
I have no idea, I'm afraid. Maybe you should start a new thread on this
subject.
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Roy Schestowitz
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