dotTech - Topic: Save/u old IDE drive??

Mags on Save/u old IDE drive??

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:18:18 -0700

vandamme said:

Someday that old hard drive will die. So be ready for it. IMHO you should use it for backup, because it's probably slow too. If it dies you just chuck it and get something else for backup (good excuse for a new computer). If the new disk dies you have your stuff backed up.

Thumbs up! It is definitely better to use your old drive for backup and set it as the slave drive. It is also a good idea to do 2 backups, one on the old drive and another either on a flash drive (USB) or DVD/Blue Ray etc.

If you do get a new PC and the drive still works then the installation becomes a bit more tricky. Most newer PCs don't have connectors for PATA drives. Therefore you have to look elsewhere to install it. If you have a CD/DVD drive, and have a second connector for that drive, you should notice that that connector is the same for a PATA drive. You can set the drive to slave and connect it to the CD/DVD drive.

vandamme on Save/u old IDE drive??

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:58:12 -0700

Someday that old hard drive will die. So be ready for it. IMHO you should use it for backup, because it's probably slow too. If it dies you just chuck it and get something else for backup (good excuse for a new computer). If the new disk dies you have your stuff backed up.

Neil Berman on Save/u old IDE drive??

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 01:21:39 -0700

Excuse my ignorance, but how do I identify the components of the operating system so that I can move everything else to the new hard drive?

amnesia on Save/u old IDE drive??

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:47:14 -0700

As mygandede said, use the 40GB for your operating system.

mygandede on Save/u old IDE drive??

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:40:30 -0700

Sure it makes sense. But i would use the small one as primary drive with the operating system and install all the programs on the big drive. There are few programs that don´t allow to change the install path but they should fit on the 40GB drive.

If you don´t like the idea use the small drive for your temp directory and for the pagefile. This should speed up your computer a bit.

Neil Berman on Save/u old IDE drive??

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:52:10 -0700

I am replacing the 40GB PATA/IDE drive on my Dell 2400 computer with a new 320GB hard drive to give me hopefully more capacity (for all the freebies I download from Giveaway of the Day) and hopefully allow my computer to run faster. Does it make sense to reuse the old 40GB drive as a second (slave) drive? Are there any precautions I should be aware of?