HD question

[spec74]

I'm about to upgrade my HD to WD 160 gig 8MB... anyways my friend tells me my comp won't read it with out something add-on to it?...

I have a P4 1.6 with win XP sp1 on it... is my friend right or is he full of bs?

 

[Cawchy87]

i am not quite sure what he means by "add on" but you will need the windows xp disk to install winXP to your new hard drive.

 

[Anubis]

are you replaceing the drive that windows is on or just adding this in as a 2nd HD?

if you are replaceing teh current windows drive you will need to format and install windows on it


if you are just adding it as a 2HD you just need to plug it in, and format it from inside windows

 

[spec74]

It's gonna be a new HD. I'm going to do a fresh install. with win xp CD..

 

[Pariah]

He might be talking about the 128GB limit which would prevent your computer from seeing more than that amount. If you're installing XP w/ SP1 on the system it should be OK. Although a P4 1.6 system is pretty old, so you might have a BIOS issue. Make sure you have the most recent BIOS update for your motherboard.

 

[yezhou]

Is that a SATA HD? Mayb your friend thinks your system doesn't have any SATA/RAID controllers?

 

[spec74]

Well I haven't been keeping myself up-to-date with current hardware for awhile now so I have no idea what SATA is and i'm starting to know what RAID is. Yeah my comp is old so I'm thinking of selling it and building a whole new system with more power... it's been 3-4 years since I built a comp... I guess this is a good excuse to do it