The hard drive in my wife's Dell 660 Inspiron desktop shit the bed. It's (was?) a 2000GB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM with 64MB cache and a 6.0GB/s transfer rate.
I hooked it up to a universal drive adapter and plugged it into the USB port on my laptop which failed to recognize it. I expect that her files will be unrecoverable. I'll bring it into work and ask one of my more tech-savvy buddies to doublecheck this conclusion.
I've ordered a recovery flash drive from Dell. Rather than just buy a new hard drive from Dell, I wanted to plumb the depths of the collective SoSH knowledge and get recommendations from you all about what drive to put into the machine which has 8GB RAM.
My thoughts at this point are to hook her up with a Microsoft 365 license for her own 1TB cloud drive and get her into the habit of storing all her files up there, so that when the new hard drive ultimately shits the bed, her files will still be accessible.
So I have two questions:
I hooked it up to a universal drive adapter and plugged it into the USB port on my laptop which failed to recognize it. I expect that her files will be unrecoverable. I'll bring it into work and ask one of my more tech-savvy buddies to doublecheck this conclusion.
I've ordered a recovery flash drive from Dell. Rather than just buy a new hard drive from Dell, I wanted to plumb the depths of the collective SoSH knowledge and get recommendations from you all about what drive to put into the machine which has 8GB RAM.
My thoughts at this point are to hook her up with a Microsoft 365 license for her own 1TB cloud drive and get her into the habit of storing all her files up there, so that when the new hard drive ultimately shits the bed, her files will still be accessible.
So I have two questions:
- How reasonable does this approach seem?
- If I go this route, please recommend me a 3.5 inch SATA hard drive that won't suck. I'm thinking that 500GB should be plenty.