Re: [PCWorks] Compaq 5020 Hard Drive
- From: Tom <tom2007@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:09:06 -0500
Boy, I feel silly, never thought about disconnecting it from
the motherboard. The reason I want to try another hard drive
is to see if a 7200 RPM drive will be faster than the one in
the computer, which I'd guess is 5400 RPM. The BIOS probably
won't recognize a very large drive but I'll see what happens.
Thanks,
Tom
** Message Separater **
>I've seen similar things that will unplug-it would be very
>weird if it doesn't.
>Why are you doing this?
>You might be better off removing the motherboard connection
>if you're taking out the drive.
>
>Tom wrote:
>> I was given an old Compaq 5020 computer. The hard drive
is a
>> strange shaped thing with a kind of circuit board
attached to
>> it with the IDE connection on it. The IDE connector
seems to
>> be a standard forty pin connector but I can't unplug it.
I'm
>> affraid of breaking it if I try too hard.
>>
>> Is it meant to be unplugged?
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