Best Place to Purchase Replacement Hard Drive?

tmhutch · 09-17-2006, 03:32 AM

NewB here. Great forum! Tons of great info. Hopefully somebody can help me with a question. After many gentle nudges, my 83 year old grandmother has decided to give the computer world a go. A family member gave her an T1801 Emachine, but not before removing the hard drive. Can I just buy a new hard drive with the operating system already installed? Can someone reccomend a place?

Thanks,

Todd

codeman0013 · 09-17-2006, 03:35 AM

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Originally Posted by tmhutch

NewB here. Great forum! Tons of great info. Hopefully somebody can help me with a question. After many gentle nudges, my 83 year old grandmother has decided to give the computer world a go. A family member gave her an T1801 Emachine, but not before removing the hard drive. Can I just buy a new hard drive with the operating system already installed? Can someone reccomend a place?

Thanks,

Todd

Well your not going to be able to just buy the hard drive with the os on it you are going to have to buy a good harddrive and put the os on it which unfortuinately you are going to have to buy or possibly get ahold of emachines and see if they can send you one with the oem for that computer..

tmhutch · 09-17-2006, 03:39 AM

Sounds expensive... Can I use my old Windows 98 CD Roms for the operating system?

codeman0013 · 09-17-2006, 03:42 AM

You can it woudlnt exactly be legal but i dont think ms cares if you are using 98 its outdated lol

tmhutch · 09-17-2006, 03:45 AM

Yeh, it should be plenty good for her. Probably just end up being a glorified type writer.

tmhutch · 09-17-2006, 09:37 PM

Best place to purchase hard drive for older eMachine?

Todd

Bobo · 09-17-2006, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by tmhutch

Best place to purchase hard drive for older eMachine?

Todd

You can find a hard drive anywhere. Ebay would be your best bet, just get a cheap IDE hard drive.

tmhutch · 09-17-2006, 10:04 PM

OK, thank you.

09-17-2006, 03:32 AM	#1 (permalink)
tmhutch New Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 5	Best Place to Purchase Replacement Hard Drive? NewB here. Great forum! Tons of great info. Hopefully somebody can help me with a question. After many gentle nudges, my 83 year old grandmother has decided to give the computer world a go. A family member gave her an T1801 Emachine, but not before removing the hard drive. Can I just buy a new hard drive with the operating system already installed? Can someone reccomend a place? Thanks, Todd

09-17-2006, 09:37 PM	#6 (permalink)
tmhutch New Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 5	Anyone else? Best place to purchase hard drive for older eMachine? Todd

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09-17-2006, 03:39 AM	#3 (permalink)
tmhutch New Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 5	Sounds expensive... Can I use my old Windows 98 CD Roms for the operating system?

09-17-2006, 03:42 AM	#4 (permalink)
codeman0013 Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Inside my network at work Age: 24 Posts: 1,620	You can it woudlnt exactly be legal but i dont think ms cares if you are using 98 its outdated lol

09-17-2006, 03:45 AM	#5 (permalink)
tmhutch New Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 5	Yeh, it should be plenty good for her. Probably just end up being a glorified type writer.

09-17-2006, 10:04 PM	#8 (permalink)
tmhutch New Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 5	OK, thank you.