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01-07-2003, 07:56 PM
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Old Hard Drive - New Machine: Advice Please.
First of all I really don't like partitioning drives. What I want to know is if/when I build my system, if I could put an old 212mb hard drive into it, would this slow the machine down? Or would this cause some unexpected error that would make my machine explode into a million pieces? What are the pros and cons of adding a really old hard drive to a brand new machine?
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01-07-2003, 09:27 PM
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Well, for one thing, if you are using any current operating system, it will probably take up most of your space. I used to have an old 486 with a 170M hard drive. When I gave it to my bro and I got a Pentium system with Win95 on it, he wanted to upgrade his machine to Win95 also (buying another copy - not pirating). I was told the OS would've taken up the majority of the space and there wouldn't be much left for other programs. I don't know that Windows XP would even begin to fit on that drive with nothing else on there. If you go with a new drive and get Windows XP, there won't be much "headache time" with setting up the new drive cuz WinXP pretty much does that for you.
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01-07-2003, 09:30 PM
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Old drives such as that are very slow, so that's your major drawback, you machine will run like it's dragging a freight train behind it. Then as mentioned, you would need to use an OS that won't take up a lot of new room as newer OS's would never fit on that drive.
Any particular reason you don't like partitioning?
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01-07-2003, 09:56 PM
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Well, I don't want to put my OS on a hard drive that small. I just want to have it for putting word documents and stuff on. And it seems way cheaper then buying a brand new 10-20gig hard drive just to put 100 or so mb's of stuff on. Would it still slow my system down if it was a slave drive? Would it be better to put it on the same IDE channel as another drive or have it on its own channel?
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01-07-2003, 10:27 PM
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Probably best if it was on it's own channel.
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01-07-2003, 10:30 PM
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Even if it is on its own channel will it slow my machine down? Because if it is going to slow the machine down then it would probably be best to just go with a smaller brand new hard drive. Also does it matter if I were to use a used floppy drive in a new build, or is a floppy drive a floppy drive and therefor it doesn't matter, as it won't affect the performance of the machine any?
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01-07-2003, 10:37 PM
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On a separate channel, it will be fine (slave it to your CD-Rom). Floppies are all the same, so a used floppy is fine as well.
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01-07-2003, 10:50 PM
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Thanks for your help.
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