Advice needed for replacement hard drive

[markpsych]

Bought a used Dell Inspiron 6400 for one of the kids last week.

100gb hard drive
1gb memory
Pro T2080 1.73GHZ prossesor dual core
Windows Vista

Has been working 100% until an automatic service update last night resulted in it failing to boot properly.

Resorted to a reinstall, but now have the "This disk may fail soon. if other harddisk is available, install to another location" message.

If I try anyway, it just hangs part way through installation....so assume the hard drive does need replacing?

Found a how to on youtube, and looks easy enough, but would be very grateful for any links to a suitable replacement.

Many Thanks

[smouty]

Any regular height 2.5" SATA HDD will be fine. Only the really high capacity ones tend to be taller so upto approx. 320Gb. You have the reinstall CD too?

[markpsych]

Yes, have the Dell and Vista discs.

Excuse my ignorance, but is this what I need?: http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=2...+top&_osacat=0

[abigsmurf]

I'd advise against buying HDDs from Ebay unless you can confirm they've a full manufacturer's warrenty. HDDs can often be DoA or fail in the first few days from damage they received in transit.

[markpsych]

Thanks...can you point me in a better direction?

[abigsmurf]

ebuyer or scan

[markpsych]

Thanks, will have a look

[markpsych]

So this should be okay?: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/136790

[smouty]

The WD drives are pretty reliable and that one is fine.

[markpsych]

Thanks both, much appreciated

[randombs]

I have one of those WD Blue drives and it's great. It's fast and quiet.

I'm interested in your Vista update thing, though. A friend's Vaio did exactly the same thing - buggered up after a Vista update and when she ran the Vaio diagnostics it said the hard drive surface scan had failed (i.e. the drive probably had a bad sector). I got her to run the recovery anyway and she hasn't had any problem since. Strange, though...

[markpsych]

That's what I was hoping for. Have tried it repeatedly though today with no joy