donheff
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I returned home with a broken hip to find a broken PC. Now that a few weeks have passed I can bend enough to mess around in the case. Here is the deal - the boot drive is near death. If I bang it with a screw driver I can eventually get it to boot but after an hour or two it fails. I have an image on an ext hd that I would like to restore to another internal SATA 1T HDD but my only spare is defunct. All that wind up brings me to my question. If I order a 1T SATA drive online will it be ready to use out of the box or will I need to set it up? If the later will I just be able to plop it in my enclosure and connect it to a laptop?
Any suggestions or cautions are welcome. I am also considering buying a new all-in-one to replace this thing but reloading all the software would be a PITA.
Any suggestions or cautions are welcome. I am also considering buying a new all-in-one to replace this thing but reloading all the software would be a PITA.