OT - Installing new HDD

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DavidM

I know this is OT for this group, and if someone can point me at a
better place I'll apologise and go there......

I am running out of space on my hard disk drives (C: = 80Gb and
D: = 30Gb, plus a 160Gb network attached drive) and am thinking
of replacing D: with a new large drive. I need an IDE attached
drive for video editing (I think).

I have read that some older PCs will not support large drives and
wonder, before I purchase, how I can find out what mine will support?

My PC is about 4 years old, 2.4G P4, ASUS P4B533-V
motherboard, with ACPI bios rev 1005. Win XPSP1.

Alternatively would a usb or firewire attached drive provide
sufficient speed for video editing work (my current network
attached drive is a bit slow - NDAS Freecom)?

Any advice much appreciated.
David.
 
Harry Ohrn MS MVP said:
check the manual here
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us --


Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User]


DavidM said:
I know this is OT for this group, and if someone can point me at a
better place I'll apologise and go there......

I am running out of space on my hard disk drives (C: = 80Gb and
D: = 30Gb, plus a 160Gb network attached drive) and am thinking
of replacing D: with a new large drive. I need an IDE attached
drive for video editing (I think).

I have read that some older PCs will not support large drives and
wonder, before I purchase, how I can find out what mine will support?

My PC is about 4 years old, 2.4G P4, ASUS P4B533-V
motherboard, with ACPI bios rev 1005. Win XPSP1.

Alternatively would a usb or firewire attached drive provide
sufficient speed for video editing work (my current network
attached drive is a bit slow - NDAS Freecom)?

Any advice much appreciated.
David.
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I did check the manual, and it doesn't say (unless the some technical
implication I didn't understand).
David
 
I did check the manual, and it doesn't say (unless the some technical
implication I didn't understand).
David
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What size hard drive are you thhinking of purchasing?
 
'DavidM' wrote, in part:
| I have read that some older PCs will not support large drives and
| wonder, before I purchase, how I can find out what mine will support?
|
| My PC is about 4 years old, 2.4G P4, ASUS P4B533-V
| motherboard, with ACPI bios rev 1005. Win XPSP1.
_____

Any capacity hard drive you can buy TODAY will be no problem with an ASUS
P4V533-V, NTFS, and Windows XP.

Phil Weldon

|I know this is OT for this group, and if someone can point me at a
| better place I'll apologise and go there......
|
| I am running out of space on my hard disk drives (C: = 80Gb and
| D: = 30Gb, plus a 160Gb network attached drive) and am thinking
| of replacing D: with a new large drive. I need an IDE attached
| drive for video editing (I think).
|
| I have read that some older PCs will not support large drives and
| wonder, before I purchase, how I can find out what mine will support?
|
| My PC is about 4 years old, 2.4G P4, ASUS P4B533-V
| motherboard, with ACPI bios rev 1005. Win XPSP1.
|
| Alternatively would a usb or firewire attached drive provide
| sufficient speed for video editing work (my current network
| attached drive is a bit slow - NDAS Freecom)?
|
| Any advice much appreciated.
| David.
|
|
 
The capacity is partially governed by the mobo bios, I've no doubt that an
updated Asus bios will support most any size you wish.
There is a large disk support problem with early editions winxp, that is
'cured' in winxp sp1 or greater.
 
DavidM said:
Probably 200 or 250GB, that should see out the life of this PC!
David.
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Even though your system is older it is not so old that it won't recognize
the size of drive you are planning to purchase. It is likely that drive will
need to be an EIDE aka IDE drive and not a SATA as your motherboard most
likely won't accept a SATA drive.

The issue you are concerned about was more of a concern with really old
systems generally Pentium II calls and older. A board that is running a P4
chip and was built in 2002 should readily acknowledge a 250GB drive. However
if your Windows XP CD does not contain at least SP1 then it won't partition
a drive larger than 130GB. In this case you need to create a slipstream
version to integrated SP1 or SP2 into it. Then it will easily accommodate
very large drives. If your version of XP is already SP1 or SP2 then you
should be fine.
 
DavidM said:
I know this is OT for this group, and if someone can point me at a
better place I'll apologise and go there......

I am running out of space on my hard disk drives (C: = 80Gb and
D: = 30Gb, plus a 160Gb network attached drive) and am thinking
of replacing D: with a new large drive. I need an IDE attached
drive for video editing (I think).

I have read that some older PCs will not support large drives and
wonder, before I purchase, how I can find out what mine will support?

My PC is about 4 years old, 2.4G P4, ASUS P4B533-V
motherboard, with ACPI bios rev 1005. Win XPSP1.

Alternatively would a usb or firewire attached drive provide
sufficient speed for video editing work (my current network
attached drive is a bit slow - NDAS Freecom)?

Any advice much appreciated.
David.
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Thanks to everyone for your advice.

Odered a WD 250Gb drive from dabs.com yesterday lunchtime,
arrived 9:15am this morning, and up and running by 10.00am.

Now I just have to look forward to installing SP2 before October,
specially as it totally wrecked my system the first time I tried it 18
months ago.

Ain't this technology rollercoaster wonderful :)

David.
 
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