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Re: Discarding old computers
« Reply #25 on: December 03, 2013, 05:12:52 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on December 03, 2013, 04:55:05 PM
Wow, there's a lot of dust !!!

Anywho.  

Western Digital WD1600.  
WD Caviar SE Serial ATA Harddrive
Drive parameters LBA 312581808 *  160.0GB.
MDL: WD1600JS-22MHB0
Date: 17 Oct 2005
DCM: DSBHNTJAH

Warning use either a SATA Power or Legacy Power connector.  Do not use both which may result in damage to the hard drive.   (It used the serial data connector and the legacy power connector.)

I don't have any spare drives like that, mine are all IDE.  :(  The good news is you can buy SATA refurbs really cheap, and you can use either a 3.5" or a 2.5" drive (with a $2 Molex-to-SATA adapter cable.)  

You may have trouble installing XP unless your install CD has the SATA driver  merged in, and you can only load additional drivers during install using the diskette drive.  There's a BIOS setting to switch the SATA controller to IDE legacy mode, but if you turn that on you have to leave it on (I don't know what you give up by doing that)  If your system has a working diskette drive, all this is not a big problem.  If you need a Win XP Pro install CD with SATA drivers, let me know and I can burn you one.  It probably won't have all the other drivers you need for your motherboard, but you should be able to download the other drivers from Acer and install them later.  If you need XP Home, I don't have media for that and your license key wont work with XP Pro.

Or you can just put Linux on without all the fuss and drama of a scratch install of Windows (but then you'll have Linux instead of Windows)
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Re: Discarding old computers
« Reply #26 on: December 04, 2013, 01:47:29 PM »
Bob,

Yes, If you could send me the XP Pro CD, I would be very grateful, let me know how much to ship and I'll send you the cash.  I'll PM you my address.

Thanks.
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Re: Discarding old computers
« Reply #27 on: December 04, 2013, 11:29:21 PM »
I found a couple of old IDE hard drives: a 2GB (Maxtor 72004AP), and a whopping 20.5GB Quantum "Fireball Plus AS".  They were high-end drives in their day.  The maxtor is dated 4/05/1996.

Also pulled a 5.25" FDD out of the system I'm gonna scrap tomorrow; I didn't have the heart to throw it away (yet.)  I'm not keeping the 20 y.o. CD drive tho'.
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Re: Discarding old computers
« Reply #28 on: December 05, 2013, 12:41:48 AM »
Quote from: zxcvbob on December 04, 2013, 11:29:21 PM
I found a couple of old IDE hard drives: a 2GB (Maxtor 72004AP), and a whopping 20.5GB Quantum "Fireball Plus AS".  They were high-end drives in their day.  The maxtor is dated 4/05/1996.

Also pulled a 5.25" FDD out of the system I'm gonna scrap tomorrow; I didn't have the heart to throw it away (yet.)  I'm not keeping the 20 y.o. CD drive tho'.
I've still got  two flip-top cases of 5.25" disks.  Need a Korean bootleg copy of FoxPro? (That I bought in Germany!)  I'd have to go see what else I have.   I'm sure I have copies of dBaseIII and dBaseIII+. 

I'll take whatever, he'll be using it for homework, so some nice slow, old drives will be perfect to keep him from playing games on it.
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Re: Discarding old computers
« Reply #29 on: December 05, 2013, 01:09:56 AM »
These aren't slow.  One is just too small to install Windows XP on, and the other is marginally too small (Windows should fit, but no room for anything else once you get all the security updates installed.)

See what G98 has with regards to HDD's (you can use a 3.5" IDE drive, or a 2.5 or 3.5" SATA drive), although I'm still digging thru my pile of stuff.  I did find the XP Pro install disk, so I can make a copy for you.  I'll get that in the mail in a few days.
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Re: Discarding old computers
« Reply #30 on: December 05, 2013, 02:14:57 AM »
I'll have to check in the morning, but I might still have a 2.5" sata from my old laptop. Either 80 or 120 gb, I don't remember which.

Update: Found my old Hitachi 120gb drive, plugged it in and ran the self test. Bad news, it hung up right after it found bad sectors.

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Re: Discarding old computers
« Reply #31 on: December 05, 2013, 10:22:20 PM »
Did you guys figure out the hard drive thing? If not, I went through my old HD pile and found a Western Dig Barracuda. 80GB, 7200rpm. Just formatted and tested it and it looks good, so it's up for grabs if you still need one Scout.
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Re: Discarding old computers
« Reply #32 on: December 05, 2013, 10:22:46 PM »
That's about the size of the one I have set aside for Scout, too.
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Re: Discarding old computers
« Reply #33 on: December 05, 2013, 10:33:08 PM »
Hmmmm, first one to the Post Office *wins*.


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Re: Discarding old computers
« Reply #34 on: December 05, 2013, 10:36:04 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on December 05, 2013, 10:33:08 PM
Hmmmm, first one to the Post Office *wins*.


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Do you need SATA or IDE? Mines a SATA.
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Re: Discarding old computers
« Reply #35 on: December 05, 2013, 10:38:37 PM »
Either/or.  The motherboard has slots/cables for both.
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Re: Discarding old computers
« Reply #36 on: December 05, 2013, 10:55:20 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on December 05, 2013, 10:38:37 PM
Either/or.  The motherboard has slots/cables for both.

I might have a bigger IDE that's useable if you want more capacity. I'll have a look. Either way, PM me an address and I'll send ya something.
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