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| 139650 | 2003-04-28 23:27:00 | I have an old 233 PC which has died a horrible death (no point recovering). I was thinking of putting the HDD from the 233 into my new desktop and using it for backups etc. My question is this. Does the 233 HDD still need an OS on it for XP Pro (on the new desktop) to be able to recognise it or can I just format the 233 HDD and bung it in... Ta |
simonc (2694) | ||
| 139651 | 2003-04-28 23:31:00 | Nope. Just put it into the new PC and WinXP will be able to read it. You can then decide if you need any data off it or just format it. Just make sure your new PC detects it in the BIOS. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 139652 | 2003-04-29 01:46:00 | But keep in mind that old stuff could slow your system down; where two devices are on a cable, the PC has to resort to the transfer speed of the slowest device on that run - PIO, UDMA etc, so try not to share the cable with anything new. I am relatively sureish about this, but not 100%, so if someone else knows better I would appreciate more information to be posted...good thing to know really. |
TerryW (2183) | ||
| 139653 | 2003-04-29 02:48:00 | Not entirely correct Terry. The fast hard drive will continue to operate at its fastest UDMA mode when just addressing that drive. However if you send data between the two drives the speed will revert to that of the slower one, for the interval in which you are transfering. Because naturally you are only as fast as your slowest bottleneck |
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