[moon111]

(08-27-2010, 01:56 PM)sonic_mikey Wrote: Iv got an old Dell Inspiron 6000 that needs a new hard drive but i dont feel like paying full price for a new one lol. Despite its age, its a pretty fast laptop considering it only has a half gig of DDR2 ram and a 1.6ghz centrino M processor. Im running Ubuntu off a live CD with nearly zero wait time.

The hard drive cant be SATA, it can be PATA, ATA, IDE or any other manufacturer lingo that all means the same thing.

Iv also managed to lose the ram cover and all the screws that hold the damn thing together (took it apart over 2 years ago) so if anyone knows the sizes or has the screws that would be wicked

Think they came with a 40 or 60 GB Ultra ATA 4200rpm hard drives. Should be able to find a replacement for about $60.00.

Refer to:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/sy.../index.htm

Lots of good information there.

Ubuntu has quite the name out there, but consider looking into other Linux versions to. I have a physical harddrive switch (Indus Technologies) and can switch my computer to Sabayon Linux which is on another harddrive. I like this because I can mess around completely and not disturb my main drive.