Hi everyone

Quick question got a laptop in the other day with an IBM travelstar inside that is only 10.5gb amd runs on a very old HP Omni that only has a P3 processor with 128memory inside the laptop. Too late for data recovery the other Techniciene before be decided to rip off client and tell her drive was bad and well to say the least found drive was not bad but when he reinstalled in computer the connector to the drive that goes to MB is destroyed due to broken pins on this. Drive was low level formated before it came to me and there is nothing left on this drive to recover. I check drive and SA, heads, and conditions and do not find many problems with this drive so I have followed the procedure that another person has done to refurb 1.8 drive for iPods and have done a zero fill, chkdisk, and scan disk on the drive and used MHDD and only find a few bad sectors on this drive. I have corrected all these problems. Is there a chance that this drive can be used again once the connector is changed to reload the system with Win98. My problem is that here the smallest 2.5 HDD is a SATA drive and starts at 120 +. I can not find a drive to change out inside this computer.

Do you think it is safe for me to reinstall this drive after I have done this and the client can use it again for a little time. I am not sure because of how old the system and drive is at this time but in checking there seems to be more life left inside of this. Or is it better when ordering new part to fix this laptop to try and order a new drive like 30 to 40GB to put back inside of here?


What do you think?

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Iorana Haraharaini