M55 laptop replacement HD recommendation plz

The hard drive in a Toshiba Satellite M55 laptop has begun to give a CRC error message...obviously it's replacment time. Device Manager says it's a HTS541060G9AT00...specs say that's an Ultra ATA100. I'm not sure these are sold locally anymore. What have other Toshiba Satellite owners been using? Is there a good on-line set of instructions?
TIA,
Stan.

I am replacing the hard drive in my M55-S3293 laptop. The enclosure for the hard drive has a protrusion that prevents my replacement hard drive from plugging the pins in. Can that be removed? You can see in the picture the shiny, white protrusion.
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