laptop HDD

[Brown Hornet]

ok i have a friend who is bringing her laptop to vegas for a hard drive upgrade
i am not sure what type interface the drive should be.here are her spec's

http://ecsusa.com/products/a928_spec.html

the hard drive specs say ATA 33/66/100 enhanced ide (pio mode 4)
the laptop drive i am looking at say's IDE ultra ATA-6 will it work,here it is

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-146-032&depa=1

i wanted to order it before she got here.thank you

[glc]

Laptop hard drives are essentially universal, ANY 2.5" 9.5mm high drive will work. Ultra ATA-6 is the same thing as ATA100. Might want to reconsider the brand - Seagate drives now come with a 5 year warranty.

[Brown Hornet]

if a drive come's OEM do i need to go to website and d/l a drive disk.or will
window's XP do it automaticaly

[flanzig1]

Have her bring all the install,recovery,or restore CDs that came with the laptop so that you have the drivers for that particular laptop.

[glc]

If she has a lot of data, you will want a kit to "clone" the old drive to the new one.

http://www.apricorn.com/product_details.php?ID=220

[rasputinj]

I would ghost the drive, then upgrade it, I would also suggest going to a 7200rpm, it is a nice speed upgrade. You will not need to go to the website and download anything.

[Brown Hornet]

thanx for the feed back everyone :)

[glc]

7200 rpm laptop drives are not very common and quite pricey. Because of the smaller platters, a 5400 rpm drive performs like a 7200 rpm 3.5" drive.

Gonna need some kind of kit (such as I linked to) to ghost a laptop drive - unless that laptop can accept a second hard drive in one of the bays.