Hard Drive Options

[harriw]

Hey i was wondering if anyone could help me out with this:

I want....well need a bigger hard drive, so i want to basically get a really large one and have it as my C drive, and have my current C drive become D, and have my current D drive become E.

So i want to know how easy this will be to do? if you know what i mean, you know, what stuff to do to each hard drive, ie master slave etc.

Thanks for any help

This post has been edited by harriw: Aug 13 2004, 11:22 PM

[chcman]

so first of all, is your drives partitioned or are they actual?

well you could say its easy my friend taught me to do this he said jsut shove the new drive in set the master and slave (so make ur new drive master) then format the disk install windows and merry christmas.

[harriw]

lol thanks, well there both actual (i dont know what you mean by this but its not just one hard drive partitioned, its two hard drives.)

Also its that easy you say? Any size (Gb) you could recomend?

This post has been edited by harriw: Aug 13 2004, 11:34 PM

[Iron Gland]

I'm surprised you're even going to get a bigger HDD. I have an 80 and a 20 and I'm set. I use my 80 for windows and everything else and my 20 as a temporary downloads folder. You could try a form of Raid where it just considers all HDD's as one. The only problem with this is that every HDD takes on characteristics of the weakest, which wouldn't be a problem if every HDD is the same. Now, back to your last question, why not just get a 100G or 120G drive. The size of the drive is pretty much based on your personal preference and what you're doing.

[chcman]

i would recommend a 160 GB western digital or seagate barracuda drive. they are both great and you probably wont need anything more than 280GB any time soon (160+80+60)

if you are looking at performance get an 74GB western digital raptop serial ata 10000rpm they are really fast, i shuolda got those for my comp make sure ur mobo supports serial ata, which proably does, or get a pci controller

yes its easy to install i tried it a few times. get the master and slave correct and make sure the bios detects the dives ('auto' setting is mostly always fine) yep and thats it.

[harriw]

Well i got a 200GB hard drive And after about 3 reformats and a few hours i have it all set up again.

Thanks for the help and all the info.

[chcman]

nice, enjoy ur new drive