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Hard Drive?

Zoton · 2004-06-03 14:01:52

Want to get a new HD for the folks pc, but i dont know what make the mother board is, so i dont know what kind of HD to get, and i cant figure it out over the phone. Any ideas? I'm very rusty on these matters. The system is a PII350 Mhz with 128 MB Ram.

03-06-2004 2:01pm

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Zoton

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Want to get a new HD for the folks pc, but i dont know what make the mother board is, so i dont know what kind of HD to get, and i cant figure it out over the phone. Any ideas?
I'm very rusty on these matters.
The system is a PII350 Mhz with 128 MB Ram.

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#2 03-06-2004 2:24pm

Stephen

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Any IDE hard disk should do. That machine is too old to have SATA and its unlikely that it would have had SCSI. A machine that old might not be able to see past ~127GB though, so this may limit the size of disk you can install (to get the full use out of it).

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#3 03-06-2004 2:33pm

Zoton

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I only want to put in about 40GB anyways.
Does it not matter if its ATA 100 or 133?

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#4 03-06-2004 2:42pm

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ATA 100 is your best bet.

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#5 03-06-2004 2:44pm

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ata100 and 133 drives are backwards compatible with older mainboards.

you shouldn't have a problem with putting a 40gig drive in that computer, it's was made a good while after the 8.4gb barrier was broken.

just go for any old ata100 hard drive

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#6 03-06-2004 2:57pm

Zoton

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Thanks a million people. I appreciate it.:)

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