New HDD for a Toshiba satellite Laptop

[dmdougie]

Hi guys, my friend has a Toshiba Satellite laptop that was recently attacked by a trojan virus. I had a look at it but suffice to say its knackered. The laptop is 3 or 4 years old. Is anyone aware of a good site where I can buy a new HDD for it?

Thanks for any help
-Doug

[Hybrid]

Any 2.5 inch IDE laptop hard drive will fit mate.

www.ebuyer.com

[dmdougie]

Awesome thanks Dave, and wow, what a response time!!!

-Doug

[Hybrid]

On another note are you sure the current one is shot.

A virus shouldn't take a drive down physically.

[dmdougie]

Im not sure, the anti virus on the laptop identified over 250 errors. The AV was a trial and couldnt delete the trojan. It wouldnt let me upgrade and all attepmts to access the internet failed.

I tried to boot up in safe mode to run AV but the whole thing froze and for an hour afterwards I was unable to get the thing to preform any tasks, so I gave up!

[Hybrid]

Just boot of an XP CD and do a full format, that will get rid of the viruses.

If you replace the hard drive your going to have to start over anyway so might as well try the above first.

[dmdougie]

Sweet idea, when you say boot off of, do I have to go into BIOS and change the boot device order so its booting from CD first?

[Hybrid]

Possibly, or when you turn the laptop on it will say something like press F2 for 'Boot menu'