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Dodgy Al
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 Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:20 am Post subject: upgrading the hard drive |
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thanks to Giant et al, for helping me solve my laptop's processor problems. I now want to move on to the hard drive. at the moment i have a measly 20gb. i also have an 80gb 5400rpm external hd.
so should i buy a new hard drive with a higher rpm, or just swap the two that I currently have? Also, is it an easy process to change/upgrade a hard drive?
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ChopChaeJoe
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:27 am Post subject: |
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Get over to the Yongsan computer market. There's a building connected to the E-mart by tunnel that has many hard drive vendors. I think there's a store in the building called Stylish Desktop Computer, or maybe that's just an advertisement sign.
Anyway, there are many stores to sell you a 7200 RPM IDE hard dive as big as you want (say 200 to 500 GB) and a portable USB case for less than 700 won per gigabyte (you will need to bargain, but it's fun). You could even get them to put it together for you, though that only takes a couple minutes. Then, all you need to do is format it, which is trivial, just google how to do it. |
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Giant
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:47 am Post subject: |
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Upgrading your drive is very easy. What do you want to do, just get a new drive and install a fresh copy of XP or image your current setup onto the new drive?
Also, I would recommed putting the new drive as your main drive, since newer drives work faster, faster platter speed and better cache etc.
@ ChopChaeJoe,
I dont know if you know this but you cant get 200-500MB drives for notebooks yet. A common large size is like 120GB for a notebook. Unless of course you get a PC type USB external case and drive for external use. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| ChopChaeJoe wrote: |
Get over to the Yongsan computer market. There's a building connected to the E-mart by tunnel that has many hard drive vendors. I think there's a store in the building called Stylish Desktop Computer, or maybe that's just an advertisement sign.
Anyway, there are many stores to sell you a 7200 RPM IDE hard dive as big as you want (say 200 to 500 GB) and a portable USB case for less than 700 won per gigabyte (you will need to bargain, but it's fun). You could even get them to put it together for you, though that only takes a couple minutes. Then, all you need to do is format it, which is trivial, just google how to do it. |
I'm not 100% sure and maybe one of the geek gurus can point out if I'm mistaken, but with an external drive going at either 400 or 480Mbps it won't matter much if you get a 5400 instead of 7200 rpm. |
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Giant
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:04 am Post subject: |
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| Well, for external use it wont matter much. |
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Dodgy Al
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| Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| Giant wrote: |
| Upgrading your drive is very easy. What do you want to do, just get a new drive and install a fresh copy of XP or image your current setup onto the new drive? |
Thanks for the advice guys - this forum is definitely the most civilised!
Well I don't really want to shell out money for another hard drive, if the higher rpm won't make a noticeable difference. so i would like to put my current setup onto my new(ish) 80gb 5400rpm hard drive.
I've done a bit of research into cloning software, but am still not sure, a) whether it's really necessary to purchase such a thing, and, b) how this would affect the data already on my new(ish) drive. I would be a grown-man crying if it wiped everything!
Thanks again! |
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Giant
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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Well, you can try using Acronis, its got a free trial version that you can use. It will image your drive through USB onto your external USB drive, then just install the new drive into your notebook.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/trueimage/
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Dodgy Al
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:39 am Post subject: |
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| I'll check it out. sounds perfect for what i want to do. thanks Giant! |
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