Re: [PCWorks] Compaq 5020 Hard Drive
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin-OrpheusComputing.com & ComputersCustomBuilt.com" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:32:11 -0600
Tom you could partition the drive if necessary, or just use
that jumper that limits the size (if someone can point you to
that). Or if all you want to do is just see if it's faster, it
should work but show up as a smaller size depending on the
BIOS.
-Clint
God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://www.OrpheusComputing.com
http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom"
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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