So, I've been lookin in Yahoo shopping for a new CHEAP hard drive. I currently have a 10 gig and just want extra space. I have no idea what I'm lookin' at. I just searched for anything under 120 bucks. Are these 40 gigs for real? I just wanna save mostly the usual crap, MP3s and pics. Any input is much appreciated! http://finder.shopping.yahoo.com/shop/charddrive?price_from=0&price_to=120&capacity_from=&capacity_to=&y=f&x=1 ------------------ "Me entiendes Mendes? O te explico Federico?"
I would get a 20GB IBM or Maxtor for that price range. They should be pretty easy to find. I use them in most of my new builds. My friend swears by Western Digital but I am not real keen on them. For what you are saying (MP3's, pics) that should be plenty of room. The 40GB and up sure are nice though. ------------------ "I may be mistaken, but I'm never wrong" -Barkley
For $120 you can get a 40 gig drive easily. You may even be able to get a 40 gig 7200 RPM drive, although if you just need it for the space and not for speed (video editing), it's overkill. Stay with Maxtor or IBM. They make the fastest drives and in Maxtor's case often the best bang-for-the-buck drives. ------------------ Yugo grills, Yugo mills, Check out the oil my Yugo spills...
Maxtor's Rock! I recently upgraded to a 20gig and the MaxBlast installation diskette and program was so easy to use I wouldn't mind installing another one, just cause it was so easy. Go with Maxtor 7200rpm and you should be fine. happy shoppin' rH ------------------ visit: The Psychedelic Groove House of Rockets Basketball Love! President, CEO & Charter Member of Rocketholics Anonymous Jiizz Coach Sloan, "OK guys, after we practice layups, I want everyone to pair up with a buddy and practice your flops"
Assume you've installed the 30 gig drive and the 6 gig is still the primary/boot disk. If you're using Winblows, you can make a bootable floppy with fdisk and format on it. Use fdisk to partition the drive, then use "format D: /s" from a DOS prompt to make the D: drive bootable. You can also format it from Explorer, but I've never done that. I don't see why it wouldn't work, though. If you want to make it all easy after you've installed the new hard drive, get something like Partition Magic that allows you to resize, format, create, and delete partitions. ------------------ Yugo grills, Yugo mills, Check out the oil my Yugo spills...
What you can do if you have 1 HD and buy a new one is just copy everything to the new drive and take out the old one (note: I dont mean copy and paste in windows, read the instruction manual that came with the new drive) I dont know it this would work with 2 drives though. ------------------ ~John~ Help keep the obsessed thread alive post the reasons why you are an obsessed Rockets fan by clicking here
mr_oily -- http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=18&threadid= 30702&highlight_key=y&keyword1=maxtor%2040 I just did this deal.... got a 40 gig Maxtor drive and an ATA/100 card link. Throw in paper clips from Staples (something like 17 cents) and it pushes it just over $200. There is a Staples $40 off $200, plus you get a $50 rebate if you buy a Maxtor drive and card (which is what you're doing). Shipping is free. $110 is your total. I just got it delivered yesterday... re-installing software today. I recommend it. ------------------ NOTHING BUT .NET CLUTCHCITY.NET [This message has been edited by Clutch (edited April 27, 2001).]
Thanks much everyone...NEW hard drive, here I come! ------------------ "Me entiendes Mendes? O te explico Federico?"
Hey, that's the same deal I just did last month to get my 40 gig'er. But I'm praying the rebate comes in. Half the time I never get the thing... ------------------ Yugo grills, Yugo mills, Check out the oil my Yugo spills...
I got a 30 Gig for like 109$ no rebate QUESTION: IF I install it as a second hard drive. . . .then copy the C-Drive to the [now E] drive. Then Do the same to the D -drive [original drive is partitioned]. THEN Take out the original drive and just got with the 30 gig drive. . . . would the 30 gigger be bootable? The original is only 6 gigs and almost full so I want to use the 30 gigger as my main drive and maybe run Linux off the 6 gig drive. ALSO - The C drive is on FAT 16 and I want to make the boot section of the 30 Gig drive FAT 32 . . . so it can be partitioned to larger than 2 gigs. Will this be a problem? Rocket River ------------------
