Hard drive question

[MasterFul]

Im gona format a fairly old hard drive and use it for my amd 64 3500+ temporarily... Will it damage anything or is anything incompatible?

 

[w00t]

its a hd unless your board doesnt support ide and sata i think u are fine unless its a scsi drive than u would have a scsi pci card

 

[MasterFul]

ok and one more question I have an xp cd and it says "Compaq only systems" will this work with an athlon 64 and if not is there any way to make it work ?

thanks

 

[Juno]

Well, it is worth a try. Try it and it won't hurt you.

 

[MasterFul]

I need to be 100% sure

 

[stevty2889]

If the CD says for compaq only, it most likely will not work. They have OEM software that won't install if it does not see a compaq BIOS..