yep, Its from an old desk top in the loft. Anyway, Ive taken it out and it will fit into my PC. Only the last time I tried to do something technical like this I fried the processor of my old IBM lol.

Will It be safe to do this? Could I just format it and install windows and use it as a separate drive or would it make my PC go tits up?:confused:

Is no one going to help me?:(

Just tell me if it will frig my PC up, cuz i really want to try it!

No it wont kill your PC :)

I am not liable if it does ;)

set the hdd jumpers so it's a slave disk, plug it in (power and data cables), load up windows, see if windows can see it as a HDD, once done OK you then go format and do what you will with it.

as dracoro says :)

Ok cheers guys.

Just checked if it fitted, it does. Ill install it shortly;)

How do you make it a slave drive BTW?

Unless of course it's the only disk on the second controller, in which case it'll be a master.

look at the back of the drive, you need to set the jumpers correctly

Alright Im just making sure now..

The disk is out of an old desktop which must be at least 10yrs+ old, the 'computer' its out of had a tape drive FFS!:D The disk looks like new however and will fit perfectly..

I dont know if its worth doing because I dont know how big it is but Ill have to just install it and see.

It was used as a Transco buisnes PC and has some wierd programs on it.

Do you think it will format and run windows 98?:confused:

And it wont kill my expensive PC??

If the hard drive is that old, it probably wont be very big at all, and may not even have enough space to store Windows on!

lol your probably right, It has got some big, wierd programs on it however...

It might not even be IDE if it's that old, possibly MFM or RLL. And perhaps only 5-10 meg anyway. An MFM/RLL drive wont work on an IDE interface.

for little cash, you can but a new HDD. 160GB for £80 40G for £40.

a 10 year old pc will probably have something in the region of 80MB. Not worth the time unless you REALLY need 80MB. You could probably clear double that on your current HDD by clearing out loads of crap that accumulates on these things.

Ok here is some pics of it. What do the labels on it mean?

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/Mattison180/Jan28017.JPG
http://hometown.aol.co.uk/Mattison180/Jan28018.JPG
http://hometown.aol.co.uk/Mattison180/Jan28019.JPG

Conner - my god, they ended as part of Seagate years ago.

That's a 120MB drive, 3400rpm speed. It is IDE/ATA though :D

Just put it back in the loft...

. . . . bin :D

LOL what a sign of progress - my video card has 256MB RAM :eek:

haha I might just blow a few nice big holes through it with me air rifle:D

Or look at the pretty parts inside it :p

Hard disk platters make good geeky coasters :)

^^ Geek! :D

Hi Chaos,

Probably not the best idea to suggest something like this if you are a novice, but ha.

Rather than blow a hole in it with an Air Rifle, take the lid off of it and connect it up to your computer and fire it up and access it and stuff. The HDD wont last very long at all like that, but if you've never seen one working opened up it can be quite an interesting thing to see.

... probably gonna get mobbed by the geek brigade next :rolleyes:

Too late buddy, its got 4 6MM holes through the lid, the PCB is in bits theres dints in the top platter..

..a very sick hard disc indeed:p

Now your gunna tell me is a 40gig drive worth about the same in pounds..:rolleyes::D

I don't know if you're being sarcy about that, but I just bought a 160gb drive for £67. So me finks you could probably get 40 giggers for less than £40.

I don't reckon you'll find any market that depreciates quite like computers.

Oh, and a hot tip from Mighty Z, if you're planning on running 2 drives in your computer, set the second drive to hold the Windows swap file. The upshot is that Windows reads from the first but writes to the second (if it is using HDD to help with memory requirments), it stops the back and forth reading and writing to and from the first disk and makes quite a speed improvement.

Of course if your thinking about running a reasonable memory size (at least 256mb) then the gain will be much smaller.

Hang on chaos, yours is the Connor CP30104H I see. They're a rare collectable worth thousands! as long as they are in good condition and still work.............

120mb would have made an ideal system backup device/ registry etc


still nows its junk


M

My IE Fave's folder must be 120MB alone, never mind anything else... :D

Anything else, as in your 4TB RAID-5 NAS for pr0n? :)

4 Terra bytes :eek: is that all ;)