Re: ot hard drive replacement

Posted by Hurst on February 18, 2006 at 07:48:25 from (66.129.5.5):

In Reply to: ot hard drive replacement posted by chris sweetland on February 17, 2006 at 21:15:09:

Replacing a hard drive is pretty simple if you have the right software to go along with the drive. What drives do you have on your computer? I am assuming 1 hard drive and 1 or 2 cd burners/dvd drives, so you do not have 4 drives, which is the max for most ide motherboards without a controller card. I am not sure what you are doing with the computer, but all of the computers that I have built have gotten either 80 gig (our house computer, which is my video editing computer too and a P4 HT stystem) or a 40 gig, which I used in both my mom's computer (she's a teacher, and she also takes some online courses for teaching too, so that gives you an idea of what it is used for) and also I used a 40 gig in my sisters computer (I think, may have been 60, but she is a freshman in college this year, uses it for music and internet and microsoft office mostly). For brands, there are 2 that I really trust and those are Seagate and Maxtor. Maxtor is a little noisier than seagate in most cases, but seem to be a few dollars cheaper. Seagates are probably your luxury car of hard drives in my opinion. The only reason I stay away from western digital is because they are cheaper made and seem to have more failures from what the men who build our computers at our farm office told us. I have had good luck with newegg.com, just make sure you use a credit card, otherwise it take forever for check on delivery. Now to install the drive, if you buy a retail drive (not oem, which is just a drive in some bubble wrap and no box, it is what computer builders buy), it will include the instructions and should have some type of software to transferr your files. Make sure you buy an IDE either ATA/100 or ATA/133 (that stands for megabites per second, and your P3 motherboard, if a later one should be 100, so 133 will be buying a little more than you can use, but may be on sale or something, so it is compatable). Installing the hardrive, you need to shut the computer down, plug in the hard drive to a 4 pin power supply for it, plug in the IDE cable, then insert the boot up disk that the hard drive came with, turn on the computer and let it boot up on the disk (if it doen't boot up on the disk, you need to enter the BIOS and change the bootup order so it will boot up on the hard drive after the disk drive that you are using for the hard drive software). This should boot up into a formatting program and a file transfer program. If you have Windows XP, I would highly reccommend NTFS format, as it is much more reliable and a better file system than FAT 32. Once it is formatted, it will let you transfer the drives. When this is done, shut the computer down, remove the old Hard drive, remove the disk, and boot it back up. It should boot up on the new hard drive, if it doesn't, then the program has not changed the settings of the new drive to be the bootup drive, so you will need to put the old drive in the computer and leave the new one too, then boot it up on the old drive, google "selecting boot drive windows xp" or something similar and you will find many good articles explaining how to change the boot drive (the drive the computer reads for the OS and to boot up with). When you get them changed, shut the computer down, remove the old drive, and it should boot up like new.

Hurst

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