Which replacement hard drive ?

[jontye]

Hi, I have a e-sytem ei 3102 laptop and I want to replace the existing hard drive, the current drive is a 40gb s-ata hdd.

I would like to replace it with something around 160gb, but I would like to know what rpm rating would be suitable for this machine, also, do the replacement hard drives come with any install cd.

I've already uprated the ram to 2.5gb, now I want to uprate the hard drive.

Any advice would be helpful.

Cheers, :confused:

[Plastic Nev]

Hi and Welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help

New hard drives don't come with any install disks. Once fitted to the machine you would then need to install the operating system onto the new drive.

Do you have any disks that either came with the machine or were created by you when you first bought it?

If no to both above, you would have to buy a copy of the operating system to install it to the new drive.

Let us know the above and we can go further. Is this the machine with Vista or is it an earlier system such as XP?

If it is Vista and you decide to buy a fresh copy of the operating system, why not go for Windows7?

Nev.

[jontye]

Thanks for the information Nev.

I don't have any discs for the machine at all, it came preloaded with Vista.

The windows 7 sounds like a good idea.

Firstly I would like some advice on which actual hard drive to install.

Jontye