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Khuutra said:

Crap.

What are my options for a replacement drive in a Dell laptop?

A Dell laptop's hard drive should be like any other hard drive.  If it has a bunch of pins, it is an IDE HDD.  If it has two 'L' shaped connections, it is SATA.

If you have an IDE/SATA to USB adaptor, you could hook your current hard drive to another computer and use Seatools to test it.  I don't suppose you have one.