Like I said if you could drive... My sister drove one of those until a few years ago. They go forever! I'm 80 miles from you in the opposite direction near the New Hampshire border. I thought you could get a wrist strap there for $2.99, but it's not necessary if you discharge the power supply and then touch the metal frame in the PC.
I agree your best bet is to replace the same-size drive. Formatting may not be necessary, my gut feeling says no, because you are putting the same sectors on the new drive as the old one and no partitioning is necessary. I've done this using Partition Wizard and other programs such as the one that comes with the Seagate and Western Digital drives. I don't know if the CD comes with the drives any longer, but that made things a whole lot easier. Put in the new drive on another port in the computer. Put in the CD and choose options and let the program do its thing. When done, open things up and pull out the old drive after making sure the new one was the boot drive. It's a lot easier than what I typed.
I agree your best bet is to replace the same-size drive. Formatting may not be necessary, my gut feeling says no, because you are putting the same sectors on the new drive as the old one and no partitioning is necessary. I've done this using Partition Wizard and other programs such as the one that comes with the Seagate and Western Digital drives. I don't know if the CD comes with the drives any longer, but that made things a whole lot easier. Put in the new drive on another port in the computer. Put in the CD and choose options and let the program do its thing. When done, open things up and pull out the old drive after making sure the new one was the boot drive. It's a lot easier than what I typed.