Mike,

I don't have the url, but if you go to the Dell support site for the
I8200, look in the reference, manuals area. You should find a manual that
will give you all you need to strip the Inspiron down to a pile of parts and
put it back together. Changing out the hard drive is pretty easy. You will
need to be up to backing up your data and reinstalling all your software and
OS.

You can also pickup parts so you can use the old drive in the modular
drive bay.


--
Thomas M. Goethe

"Michael" <please-ask-me@ask.com> wrote in message
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> Guys,
>
> [blows whistle sharply]
>
> I didn't mean to start a flame war here!  And really the
Deskstar/Deathstar
> debate is beyond the scope of my discussion.  I am just trying to buy a
> **laptop** hard drive.  I see lots of you like the zipzoomfly.com website
> and their prices look very good.  But I am a newbie here with laptops.  Am
I
> safe buying from zipzoomfly?  And apparently they sell at really good
> prices.  I just wonder about  buying a "bare" hard drive...is this
safe...is
> it just a matter of locating the documentation online?
>
> Also, in general, should I be able to return a drive that doesn't work due
> to compatibility reasons...or is buying such drives more like buying
> RAM--once you buy it, you own it?
>
> Mike
>
>
> "Dan Foster" <usenet@evilphb.org> wrote in message
> news:slrnce14q1.1ae.usenet@gaia.roc2.gblx.net... 
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