When looking to purchase a replacement hard drive, which numbers are important? I need to replace my hard drive which is a Seagate with P/N: 9SL154-022. The other number on the hard drive is: ST31000528AS. Must both of these numbers be the same on the replacement hard drive or just one of them? Thank you, Tommy.
When purchasing a Hard Drive?
- Thread starter Kamaki
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So basically what you had was a 1TB 7200rpm 32mb cache drive. I don't recommend Seagate as they often fail too soon. Western Digital is good. Would also get the 64mb cache drive.
https://www.newegg.com/blue-wd10ezex-1tb/p/N82E16822236339?&quicklink=true
https://www.newegg.com/blue-wd10ezex-1tb/p/N82E16822236339?&quicklink=true
You are talking about if I have the Windows 10 disk. For me I don't have a Windows 10 disk to load. I do have a Windows 8.1 Pro disk that I can use. Would that disk load automatically or do I have to press on a key at start up? With the Windows 8.1 installed I can then perhaps find a Free Windows 10 upgrade somewhere to load. I do have internet access. Thank you for your support. Stay safe. Aloha, Tommy.
If you already have the windows 8.1 disk and the activation key that goes with it then you can just boot to the cd and install windows that way. Then you can go here and download the upgrade to windows 10 for free.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Download the tool from that page then follow the prompts to upgrade this pc.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Download the tool from that page then follow the prompts to upgrade this pc.
The problem was I could not boot up the computer with my old drive. No matter what I tried, it just would not boot up. So, I did purchase the Western Digital Drive shown above. I installed it and after working with it, it finally installed and booted up. I installed the Windows 8.1 Operating system. Thank you all for your support. Aloha, Tommy.