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New Hard Drive, questions and concerns.
Hello, I previously posted asking how to make a USB a boot device, well I figured that out, but unfortunately is was all for not, as I had a bad hard drive, so here I am again!
I am in the market for a new hard drive, but I have some concerns before jumping into anything. I have a Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop. The hard drive it came with was a Toshiba 640gb 5400 rpm Hard drive. The exact model name was "Toshiba MK6465GSX". The closest match to that that I have been able to find on Amazon is a "Toshiba MK6459GSX", also with 640gb and 5400 rpm. The picture of it looks exactly the same as my old one. My concern is how specific do I have to be for it to be compatible with my laptop? Will this one I found on Amazon work with my laptop?
Also, is it true that a 7200 rpm hard drive is better than 5400? My laptop has a good processor and 6 gigs of ram so I'm sure it could handle the increased demand if the 7200 worked at a faster speed. I'd like to be able to upgrade to a better hard drive if at all possible. Not better as in bigger, but faster. 640gb is more than enough for me.
And lastly, the question I have that concerns Windows 7! I plan on reloading windows 7 on my new hard drive, since I assume it won't come preloaded with windows on it (And even if it does I'd probably swipe it to get rid of the bloat ware, which a lot of people recommended). If I buy a new hard drive will the Windows CD key on the bottom of my laptop still work with it? I've figured out how to make a USB a boot device and do all that jazz. But will my key be able to activate it since it's a new hard drive?
Thank you for any help you can give. :)