I have a dimension 5000,that crashed,my mate expert managed to recover, he says i need new hdd which 1.?

Question

is it easy to replace.i have original operating system disc,do i just put it in machine and follow instructions

Answer 1

I have Dell Dimension 5000 and have replaced the HDD a couple of times so far. If you don't want to lose everything, back your HDD up to some other device. I use Norton Ghost for this and back up either to another internal drive or an external one connected by USB port.

Then switch off, and replace the bad drive with a new one. Reboot from the Ghost install CD and restore the drive.