Hard Drive Failure

[tmiller782]

I went through the test procedure outlined for hard drives and the result of the test was a hard disk failure.  After using my 3 installation disks to recover the operating system and hard drive I got the very same original message to again reinstall the operating system and that the hard disk had failed.  The hard drive was a Toshiba  Model MQ01ABD100.  It was 1TB.  I had used less than 1/4 of the disk space.  My question:  Can I buy a used hard drive of any model and put it in the computer and have confidence that my three recovery disks will work.  In other words will the recovery disks that I bought work with any hard drive.  Thanks for any guidance you can offer. 

[ieee488]

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@tmiller782 wrote:

My question:  Can I buy a used hard drive of any model and put it in the computer and have confidence that my three recovery disks will work.  In other words will the recovery disks that I bought work with any hard drive.  Thanks for any guidance you can offer. 

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That would depend on your recovery disks more than the hard drive. There have been reports of people with blank recovery disks. Sometimes the DVD blanks used to create the recovery disks are junk.

To make it easy on yourself, I would buy a new hard drive that is 1 TB in size. Do not buy an SSD that is smaller in size.