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new hard drive
Name: darragh foley Date: September 27, 2004 at 05:21:07 Pacific OS: 2000 CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
hello I was just wondering if i have to be carefull in buying a new hard drive. My pc is about 4 years old a dell with a 30 gig hard drive (7200rpm.
What sort of hard drive should i be looking to get.
Name: uppercrust Date: September 27, 2004 at 05:27:29 Pacific
Reply:
with the age of the motherboard, you will need to be concerned about harddrive capacity, since some boards of that age, may not recognize larger drives, without some type of 'overlay' program. western digital and maxtor drives are popular
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Response Number 2
Name: marathonman Date: September 27, 2004 at 05:38:23 Pacific
Reply:
I just upgraded with a Seagate 120MB (£55 UKP)and, at first, it would not install due to the size.
Going onto the Seagate website I downloaded their DiskWizard (free), put it onto CD ROM, set the jumper on the HDD to limit it to 32GB, set the BIOS to boot from CD ROM, put in the CD ROM and booted from that and it worked fine. (One problem was that I tried their Floppy version first and that failed to run properly.)
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