A230n refurb needs new hard drive
good morning
I have a donated a230n HP Pavilion Desktop. ( win XP home edition)
I purchased a set of recovery discs for my a230n and i now need to get a new and preferably upgraded
Hard Drive.
i was told i need to get a hdd with a PATA interface. the original hdd listed on the models support site is :
120 GB Ultra DMA
5400 rpm
MS CherylG, you helped me before with this computer and if you would help me again with your HDD reccomendations i would
surely appreciate it.
thanks
ron
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dashdash,
All of these drives use this what is commonly called an Parallel ATA flat ribbon cable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA
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