Can satellite A30 - I install a larger HARD drive?

I thought I had taken care with boards and pieces of kit. but after the reconstruction of my A30 (having the replaced DC Jack), he comes up with the following messages:

* SMART failure provided on hard disk 0: TOSHIBA MK4018GAS (PM) *.
* WARNING: Immediately back up your data and replace your hard drive. A failure may be imminent.*
* Press F1 to continue. *

I tried winding connector to HARD drive decision-making, which seems OK.

So start thinking I killed this disk somehow. If Yes, can I install a larger drive, say 80 or even 160 GB and should I look for a magic word MK4018GAS, or is it SATA or IDE, I'm looking.

Thank you. Robin

Hello!

If you delete the old HDD, you can see if an IDE or SATA HDD but the Satellite A30 is equipped with an IDE HDD.

You can use a larger HARD drive. This should not be a problem, but as far as I know this laptop has a limitation of LBA 28 bits. This means that the disc size limit is 128GB and so you can use a 120 GB HARD drive.
If you want to learn more about this read the article on Wikipedia or here: http://www.48bitlba.com

So, you can buy a 120 GB HARD drive or an 80 GB HARD drive as you suggest. I have good experiences with Hitachi and Seagate hard drives.

In any case, I think that it s a good idea to exchange the HARD drive. SMART error message appears as if there is something wrong with the HARD drive to back up your data as quickly as possible. ;)

Good bye

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