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| 1122768 | 2010-07-27 06:21:00 | My present hard drive is about 12 years old and I am wondering if I need to replace it. (Originally ran Win98, now XP.) There have been a few problems noted lately. A few times it has decided not to start up. No blue screens, just refusing to start. I do not play any games, apart from the occasional windows supplied games, so do not need anything capable of playing the latest. The main requirement is that the hard drive is fast enough to capture video, but then I would think that all hard drives are fast enough to do that. The C drive is 75Gb and my secondary drive is 30Gb which are both plenty for my requirements. Any recommendations as to what I should buy for a replacement hard drive? What price is a good price? $100? Is it possible to temporarily install the new drive as a slave, then copy the entire C drive to the new drive then install it as the new C drive? Your help is appreciated. Thanks. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1122769 | 2010-07-27 08:52:00 | How do you know the drive is the problem? What doesn't start? Windows or the PC itself? If you replace the drive you need an imaging program, you don't just copy - that won't work. DriveClone or something similar is what you need. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1122770 | 2010-07-27 09:04:00 | www.elive.co.nz Heaps of storage assuming your pc has SATA. Before you buy a new HD make sure you check what pctek said. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1122771 | 2010-07-27 22:17:00 | How do you know the drive is the problem? What doesn't start? Windows or the PC itself? If you replace the drive you need an imaging program, you don't just copy - that won't work. DriveClone or something similar is what you need. I do not know that it is the drive, I just wondered if it may be because it is 12 years old. The PC does start to boot but then it does not want to load windows. It is an intermittent fault. At present all is well but, going on past performance, that may not last. Recently, windows would not start and it said, "system32\drivers\pci.sys is missing or faulty. Attempt to repair by using setup cd." Not having the CD at the time I just left it switched off for about 24 hours and on the next attempt it started. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1122772 | 2010-07-27 22:45:00 | Try a diagnostic utility for your drive, maybe from the vendor. I use the free disk investigator. Or maybe a verification checker for missing/corrupt windows files. I did a boot scan with Avast 5, and interestingly it found a few corrupt files. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1122773 | 2010-07-27 23:21:00 | 12 years old, first, that is definitely IDE, second, time for a new PC me thinks... | Deimos (5715) | ||
| 1122774 | 2010-07-28 00:33:00 | My present hard drive is about 12 years old The C drive is 75Gb I think we're gonna need some clarification here. I seriously doubt you have a 12 year old 80GB drive. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1122775 | 2010-07-28 03:55:00 | Have you tried running a Scan disk or chkdsk on the problem drive. Make sure you check for bad sectors | McRuff (12291) | ||
| 1122776 | 2010-07-28 05:12:00 | 12 years old, first, that is definitely IDE, second, time for a new PC me thinks... +1 |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1122777 | 2010-07-28 09:38:00 | pricespy.co.nz Some very expensive drives here ($\Gig) compared to currently available SATA drives. |
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