Hard Drive Upgrade

[Crusader]

Hey what steps would i need to take before upgrading my new hard drive. What issues do i have to check compatability wise.
Cheers

 

[dp1dp]

what exactly do u wanna do with it? copy old OS to it? just add it? is it sata or eide? a little more info for us please..

 

[Crusader]

I wanna replace my current one because it only 30gb and i need more space. Im not sure if i want IDE or SATA becuase i dont know the differnece(if you would tell me itd save me going on google).
Sorry im new to this sort of stuff and i should have googled about the IDE or SATA drive.
Cheers

 

[Shannon]

If your board supports SATA, get that. It's newer and faster. You could leave the OS on your 30gb and put your new drive in as a slave and move stuff like your My Documents onto your new drive, keeping just your OS stuff on your old drive. I would think you'd want to partition your new drive for your OS and everything anyway, and unless your 30gb is really slow or something, it'd be a fine size for just the OS stuff. I did that to my grandfather's computer. He had a 30gb and bought an 80gb, and I just left the 30 in for the OS and moved his My Documents and other files to his new 80gb.

 

[Crusader]

So how will i be able to find out if my comp is mobo is compatibe with SATA.
Thanks

 

[Trotter]

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Sort of what I was thinking.

Unless your hard drive is dying, just add another one.

If you'll list the make and model of your PC, we'll find out which kind it takes.

 

[Crusader]

Well ok but my comp was made by someone else and i bought it cheap so im not sure what make and model it is. But here is some info i got from CPU-Z, hope this help.


-MOBO-

IBM
Model-6059KZA
Chipset-Intel i815/E/EP
Southbridge-Intel 82801BA (ICH2)
Rev-A2

There was a better program for scanning your comp's componets, it started with A do you guys know it? Anyway here is the details about the MOBO just ask if u need more.
Thanks

 

[The_Tobes99]

ok i trwaled the intel site, your mobo supports ATA 100, not SATA. I would recommend ATA anyway because its cheaper & hard drives just dont use the 100MB/s of bandwidth of ATA, 10MB/s at the most

 

[Crusader]

Ok so i can get hard drive that is ATA?
BTW serial ATA is SATA. right?

 

[The_Tobes99]

yes, that is what will fit & is what i would personally buy, even though i have SATA capabilities