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Fitting a third Hard Drive...

  • 02-11-2002 4:12pm
    #1
    mike65
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    I've got two HDD (total cap 13Gb) at the mo but I'm concerned about running out of space in the next few months, so was wondering about ading a third, but is this possible my start up script shows the two disks as Master and Slave with the CDRW as secondary master and Zip drive as secondary slave, will I have to junk the zip to accomodate another drive?

    Mike.


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  • #2
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Assuming you've only got two IDE connectors on your motherboard then you're going to have to sacrifice either the CDR or the zip to add a third hard drive.

    Personally I'd keep them on it and just replace one of the existing HDD's (not the one with Windows on it) with a substantially bigger one and transfer the data over.


  • #3
    Michael Collins
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 1,851 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael Collins


    Why don't you just replace one of your existing drives with a drive of higher capacity?

    But if you REALLY want to have three, yeh you'll have to get rid of one of the other drives or buy a HD controller card.


  • #4
    DiscoStu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭DiscoStu


    or you could get a pci scsi card and whack in a nice 'n' fast scsi hard drive. you will have all your old stuff working to.


  • #5
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Thanks for the replies, I dont want to get into transferes so I'll just junk the zip drive. My CDRW has already made it pretty much redundant.

    Mike.


  • #6
    Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭Gerry


    You might consider losing one of your existing drives. They have feck all capacity compared to a new 80 or 120 gig drive. You could plug out the zip temporarily, transfer stuff across to the new drive, ( not very difficult ) Then plug out one of your old drives and back in with the zip.


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  • #7
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Originally posted by Gerry
    ..You could plug out the zip temporarily, transfer stuff across to the new drive, ( not very difficult ) Then plug out one of your old drives and back in with the zip.

    I never thought of that! Thats why I post here! :)

    Mike.


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