[Hampshire] Laptop HD replacement

Hi all

My laptop HD crashed yesterday, but never having replaced any laptop component before (let alone a hard drive), can I have a simple question: Will _any_ 2.5in HDD be a suitable replacement?

For example:

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-NBHD40

is what I'm thinking of.

Cheers
Rob