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**linderman** · 07-30-2005, 06:51 PM

Well you would be much better served in my opinion to buy a second hard drive and install the OS on that one ($40.00 to $60.00 @ newegg.com) / then use your old drive as a slave and copy over all the data and files that are important to you.

You will go thru alot of torture trying to find drivers and mobo id tools and then somehow getting them from the library computer onto yours ???

When you do a clean install of the OS it will load most all drivers for you !!

Cuple of things to consider

A) dont buy a drive larger than 137 gig unless you have a genuine need for it / as that is a windows drive limit that needs Service Pack 2 to overcome. My advice buy an 80gig up to 120 gig

B) buy a seagate drive / they have a 5 yr warranty and the quality of the seagate drives is really on the rise !!

C) buy a drive that is 7200 rpm and 8 meg cache

D) buy new round IDE 80 wire hard drive cables

C) review what OS disk you have at home / beware most manufactured computers only supply you with a recovery CD / not an install OS CD / if you are unsure post back where you got the OS disk ???

D) if its an OS disk from a manufacturer than buy a RETAIL version of Win XP (with a genuine certificate of authenticity ~~~COA ) on ebay for about $70.00

After you get done with these steps and get the new drive up and running / i can detail for you how to clone your drive to your old back-up drive so this will never happen to you again / if the OS ever gets flaky again / just pop in the cloned (exact OS copy and bootable ) drive and you wont lose 3 minutes time of your life again.

Then you will be ready to slay the beast !!!

if you wish to proceed the other way ???? download free to try Sandra Lite to identify you motherboard model, cpu model , ram specs, and any pci cards
http://www.download.com/3000-2086-10018691.html

drivers are here
http://www.winfiles.com/drivers/?tag=wf.2014.lnk

regards

joe

this drive is a decent one too !!! (the seagate is $83.00 ???)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822144122

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148029

07-30-2005, 06:51 PM	#2 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,430 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Well you would be much better served in my opinion to buy a second hard drive and install the OS on that one ($40.00 to $60.00 @ newegg.com) / then use your old drive as a slave and copy over all the data and files that are important to you. You will go thru alot of torture trying to find drivers and mobo id tools and then somehow getting them from the library computer onto yours ??? When you do a clean install of the OS it will load most all drivers for you !! Cuple of things to consider A) dont buy a drive larger than 137 gig unless you have a genuine need for it / as that is a windows drive limit that needs Service Pack 2 to overcome. My advice buy an 80gig up to 120 gig B) buy a seagate drive / they have a 5 yr warranty and the quality of the seagate drives is really on the rise !! C) buy a drive that is 7200 rpm and 8 meg cache D) buy new round IDE 80 wire hard drive cables C) review what OS disk you have at home / beware most manufactured computers only supply you with a recovery CD / not an install OS CD / if you are unsure post back where you got the OS disk ??? D) if its an OS disk from a manufacturer than buy a RETAIL version of Win XP (with a genuine certificate of authenticity ~~~COA ) on ebay for about $70.00 After you get done with these steps and get the new drive up and running / i can detail for you how to clone your drive to your old back-up drive so this will never happen to you again / if the OS ever gets flaky again / just pop in the cloned (exact OS copy and bootable ) drive and you wont lose 3 minutes time of your life again. Then you will be ready to slay the beast !!! if you wish to proceed the other way ???? download free to try Sandra Lite to identify you motherboard model, cpu model , ram specs, and any pci cards http://www.download.com/3000-2086-10018691.html drivers are here http://www.winfiles.com/drivers/?tag=wf.2014.lnk regards joe this drive is a decent one too !!! (the seagate is $83.00 ???) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822144122 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148029 __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial Last edited by linderman; 07-30-2005 at 06:58 PM.