A hard drive is called OEM when sold by discount stores with little packaging and no accessories. A retail hard drive comes in an individual box and will generally have an installation booklet and possibly mounting hardware and a cable. The OEM drive will arrive in a padded container, probably without the mounting screws or brackets and definitely with no cables. The OEM drive will usually cost about $10 to 25 less than the retail drive.
Yes.
if there is still a hard drive with sufficient space and there is sufficent ram you can place an xp oem CD in the cdrom and boot the computer and there should be on screen instructions that can guide you through the rest of the setup process the oem xp CD will run around 145-200$u.s. make sure it is oem or it will not have the boot codes
a hard drive failure is when your hard drive stops working...
a hard drive is called "disque dur" in French.
* Hard disk drive * Hard drive * HDD
If the Hard drive is IDE (40 pins on the back) you would configure the primary hard drive as Master and secondary hard drive as Slave using the jumpers on the back of the hard drive.
It is the same as a laptop hard drive
No. IDE Hard Drive cannot be replaced with a Sata Hard Drive because the connectors are different. example. if you have sata hard drive installed on your machine. and you purchase IDE Hard drive. you won't be able to install the IDE hard drive where the Sata hard drive was because the IDE connectors are a different shape and size towards the Sata hard drive connectors.
Yes, but make sure first that you have the Windows' CD for 98 or XP or whatever on hand, so if/when it asks for it you can put it in ( it does not have to be OEM - a good burnt copy works.) If you can't, you will have to use it as a slave drive.
To start, the hard drive cable connects your hard drive to your motherboard. Its really simple.
Hard Disk Drive.
You get another memory storage device, such as an external hard drive, and you copy everything on your hard drive onto the external hard drive, and keep it safe. That way, if your hard drive crashes, then you can take it out, and plug your external hard drive in, and work from that.