Satellite A100-795 - replacing hard drive

Hello

I have a Satellite A100-795 (model: PSAANE-02D00JBT).
HD = Toshiba MK1237GSX

HD can be read partly with recovery software (Active@undelete) and made too many bad noises.
Wich SATA hard drive are possible and supported by the bios?
I want to avoid buying a disc that will work in the laptop niet.

BIOS version is 5.10 (Phoenix TrustedCore)

Thans in advance for any help.

Kind regards

Leo

In your Satellite A100 HDD is SATA 1 and it was delivered with 120 GB max.
I tested my old Satellite M70 260 GB SATA HARD drive and it works perfectly, so I think that you can now pass HDD with up to 300 GB for example.
Attention to not only Toshiba HDD but high quality product from any other HARD drive manufacturer.

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