Will this Hard Drive work for me?

[Atomic Rooster]

Awesome. Good to hear it worked.

 

[setishock]

FYI
Your recovery partition files are no longer valid.

 

[MNI-SmellyCakes]

FYI
Your recovery partition files are no longer valid.

It's fine. I've never used recovery.. I just have reformatted everytime I get a virus, or whatever.

 

[63083]

I was wondering if this hard drive will work for me (as in compatibility) for my Dell Inspiron 531.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136195

Does it matter what cache size? Or the size of the GB/s?

I know it'll fit, and will it take just a regular sata cable?

And one last question.. is it regularly formatted into NTFS? The reason I'm buying a new HD is because my old one isn't letting me load vista. It says I have 222GB of free space, but says I can't load it because it's not formatted into NTFS.

Thanks.

It'll work if the motherboard has SATA ports, but for a dollar more, get this. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822135106

 

[Atomic Rooster]

I think we solved his problem already 63083. Nice suggestion though.

 

[63083]

I know I came in a bit late to the thread, but I just wanted to make a suggestion though. It's a ton better rated than the other one.

 

[MNI-SmellyCakes]

Hehe, thanks 63.