On Wednesday, January 12, 2000 10:03 PM,  "Jose E. Dominguez"
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> Are laptop drives the same? I mean, can a drive from a Toshiba be
> installed in an AST laptop as long as the interface and drive physical
> size is the same? Do you need to buy a Toshiba drive for a Toshiba or
> can a Seagate or other brand work?
>

Jose -- a smart and safe answer would be (unless someone knows for sure)
<g>,  "I" don't know. There are just too many varieties of laptops and
notebooks these days that it is impossible for me to say "definitively" how
easy, or how difficult, it will be to install a new hard drive into your
laptop. The best thing for you to do, before you place your order for a new
drive, is to try to remove, and re-install, your old hard drive just to see
if you can do it without any problems. After you learn how to do it, or
determine that you cannot do it, then you can make a more informed decision
on whether to order the hard drive replacement or not. You could always
remove the hard drive, take it to a computer shop and compare the dimensions
with another make/model, just to be sure, if it isn't too far to do so. HTH.
:-)

Walter R. Worth
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