Would it be okay to take it to BestBuy or Circuit City? It is about 3 years old.
2007-07-09 05:03:22 · 5 answers · asked by Rudi 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Depends if you talking about a hard drive or a cd drive.
I just priced a cd drive on Dell's website for a 7 year old Inspiron 8100. Dell wanted $80 for a new one, and $55 for a "rebuilt" one.
I found a CD ROM drive on Ebay for $17 dollars and replaced it myself. Sooooo easy. One screw and the drive just slides out. Look on the Dell website for a "service manual" for your pc. It should contain instructions on how to replace a drive.
If you go to Bestbuy or Circuit City you'll pay good money for the drive and probably $50 an hours for "tech" support to replace the drive. If you are going to have them reinstall your OS and software also.... be prepared.... $$$$$$$.
PC's in general are nothing but little modules that plug in and are held in place with a screw or two. Be brave and consider doing it yourself.
Hope this helps.
2007-07-09 05:12:23 · answer #1 · answered by Dick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the size of the hard drive, you can figure about one dollar per GB for the cost of the drive. Then the cost of the installation which should be less than $50. It's easy enough, that you could do the job your self, if you have the restore disks.
If we are talking about a CD drive, just find on on eBay that matches yours and install it your self. Dell's use a media bay design making changing out drives as easy as pressing a button.
2007-07-09 05:11:46 · answer #2 · answered by JMKyler3 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They sell pretty cheap if your talking about a floppy. I think you can get them for about $30.00 now or cheaper. They are easy to install. You can do it yourself and save money. You just turn off the computer, take the cover off, unplug the wire to the old floppy, plug in the other one. Put the cover back on and start the computer. The new floppy might come with a disk if it does pop it in otherwise it will probably automatically detect it.
2007-07-09 05:09:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
flow to the Dell internet site and get right of entry to their help web site. enter the TAG # out of your device and look up the guaranty status. additionally, whilst booting the device press F12 to get right of entry to the boot menu. pick the Dell Diagnostics utility Partition. this supply you a chain of exams which you would be able to run against your device, which contains the CD ROM. If it fails it supply you a code to grant to the help individual. Doing this could velocity the technique of having it fixed regardless of if it remains lined.
2016-10-20 10:21:47 · answer #4 · answered by finkle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but it may caost around 250.00 and it is actually pretty easy to do yourself. Your case unscrews and all you need to do is buy the disk drive and pop the old one out and new one back the way the old one was.
Good luck,
2007-07-09 05:12:21 · answer #5 · answered by Butterfly 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋