Hey all
Im sorry for this off topic post. I was wondering if someone had any 20gig hard drives for sale. Mine seems to be crapping itself...
20gb is the largest my PC can handle apparantly. This size isnt for sale new anymore. Im not in a position to upgrade my PC atm, so Im looking for good second hand.
Thanks in advance.
Justin
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Started by UncleGuts, Apr 18 2004 10:35 PM
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shaperau
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Posted 19 April 2004 - 05:26 AM
The largest amount of hard drive your computer will be able to see is approx 32 gig. However hard drive manufacturers dont use 20 gig platters anymore, mainly 40s. There is a fix though, go buy a 40 gig SEAGATE hard drive. These have a jumper on them that will allow you to limit the size of the drive to 32 gig. if you need any more help or dont know where to buy them send me an email (christo(@)safe-mail.net) (obviously remove the () )
Good luck (dont ever ever buy 2nd hand computer gear unless you know what you are doing!!)
Good luck (dont ever ever buy 2nd hand computer gear unless you know what you are doing!!)
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hlokk
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Posted 19 April 2004 - 07:09 AM
Yeah, i agree. Specially with hard drives ppl can give you a really bad disk. If you are going 2nd hand, there should be adds in the quokka or on ebay. I think i also have a spare hard drive at 20G somewhere, but i dont know if its being used or not. If you do buy 2nd hand make sure that you see it running (to make sure you dont hear clicks when its running which suggests that the heads are hitting the platters). Also get them to run a bad sector scan after a format to see if theres any bad sectors on the disc (having bad sectors means data might be corrupted if whatever caused those bad sectors happens again)
EDIT: Oh, and a 40gb seagate drive brand new will cost you about $70 so if thats not too much just get one of those as it is brand new, and has a warranty. Just check with the people at the store to see whether they think it will work with your computer and whether you can get a refund if it doesnt. Edited by: hlokk at: 4/18/04 11:11 pm
EDIT: Oh, and a 40gb seagate drive brand new will cost you about $70 so if thats not too much just get one of those as it is brand new, and has a warranty. Just check with the people at the store to see whether they think it will work with your computer and whether you can get a refund if it doesnt. Edited by: hlokk at: 4/18/04 11:11 pm
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Posted 19 April 2004 - 04:31 PM
my sis had a 20gb that recently semi fubar'd itself, a few months ago. My brother ended up getting it going and is using it atm. I know this doesn't help but, if your computer savy, maybe you could get a 40gb and partition it into 20gb, I don't know how to do this as I like hardware, not software, either that or I remember old computers will only read the maximum capacity of the drive they can handle.
We had a friends pentium something, and the max drive it could take was a 6gb, if you put in say 10gb it would only be able to use the first 6gb.
I'm nto sure if that makes sense, it makes sense to me
We had a friends pentium something, and the max drive it could take was a 6gb, if you put in say 10gb it would only be able to use the first 6gb.
I'm nto sure if that makes sense, it makes sense to me
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UncleGuts
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Posted 19 April 2004 - 07:21 PM
Thanks for your help everyone
I have an EPOX MVP3 mainboard, and it seems to only accept a 20gb. I have a couple of 30gb hard drives here but the board just wont detect them for some reason.
I'll try a 40 or an 80 and see if the seagate software will fix the problem.
J!
I have an EPOX MVP3 mainboard, and it seems to only accept a 20gb. I have a couple of 30gb hard drives here but the board just wont detect them for some reason.
I'll try a 40 or an 80 and see if the seagate software will fix the problem.
J!
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