I am thinking I will keep this laptop, it works fine otherwise. As I said, I did a backup onto an external HD upon getting that first HD warning. Will my laptop boot upon dropping the new drive in? (I do not think this laptop has a place to add an ADDITIONAL HD -- http://us.toshiba.com/computers/laptops/satellite/A500/A505-S6980) I have to transfer the backup to the new HD. I started a thread on here awhile back about the HD warning... I'll read that again, maybe someone told me how to install the backup to the new drive.