Seagate Momentus 1 TB 2.5-Inch SATA III 5400 RPM 8MB Cache Hard Drive Bare (ST1000LM024)

An old Acer laptop bit the dust. This was an easy fix. Retrieved Windows 10 and am back in business.

It is working well, but when I used Windows 10 "Disk Management" to see how this drive was organized, I saw that it has three partitions. One 200 mb partition could not be changed, the largest (900 GB+) being a simple partition formatted NFTS that was smaller than it needed to be because there was a 20 GB or so unallocated partition on the drive. I changed the larger drive to an NFTS unallocated drive using the longer format method (not the quick format), which worked well. But I lost the 20+ GB that was in the third partition...it just disappeared. So this drive now has 20 or more GB not available for use than it originally had. I"m not sure how to recover those GB or whether I want to since I now have a lot a files backed up on it, but be careful when you prepare the drive for use. If anybody can tell me what I did wrong and how to correct it, It would be useful. Perhaps I should have simply enlarged the small unallocated partition?

This drive fit exactly in the HP Laptop and performed well at first bootup. It formatted and accepted program just as the OEM unit. It arrived in a static free bag with silica gel dessicant. It appears to be an exact replacement for the original in the Dell laptop.

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Brought the computer back to life

This HDD worked for a few weeks and then became unreadable. I have never had a disc fail so quickly. Samsung refused to honor their warranty and told me to try Seagate. Seagate told me that the drive was not covered under warranty since it was an OEM purchase. The vendor offered to honor the warranty but required the disc to be returned. I had valuable and proprietary data on the disc and I needed data recovery attempts that would void the warranty. So I have learned to never purchase Seagate or Samsung Disc Drives and I suggest that you do not even think about purchasing these HDDs.

Works perfectly fine

The Date of Manufacture of this hard drive was May 2015 - it's now Oct 2019.The drive may be "new?", but it's over 4 years old!Hasn't computer technology changed a bit in the last 4 years?