Re: [PCWorks] Compaq 5020 Hard Drive
- From: Tom <tom2007@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:33:21 -0500
Thanks Clint,
Just to follow up, I did connect a 160 GB hard drive to the
computer and to my surprise the BIOS recognized all of it.
Now, I can't figure out how to physically remove the old
drive. The computer only has one hard drive bay. I can't
get to the screws on the right side of the computer.
True, the computer had Windows 98 on it but I'm going to
install Windows 98 SE on it. It will be good enough for my
brother-in-law who can't afford to buy a computer and who
only uses e-mail and does a little web browsing.
It's a 300 MHZ processor with 64 MB memory.
Tom
** Message Separater **
>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.
>
>----- 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.
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