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Question-installing bad drive to working system??

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Chappie

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Hi,

Kind of a weird question, but here goes. I bought a used case from E-bay not too long ago. The seller also included a hard drive in the deal for free at the last moment, but he informed me that it had some bad sectors. LOL Anyway, my question is this, what would happen if I installed that hard drive to my current system as a slave to simply check it out?? I want to see if the drive is really bad or not. Will it screw up my current system???
If that's not a good idea, what would be the best way to check it out??

It's an IDE drive and my current system is running a single IDE hard drive.

thanks,

Chappie
 
It won't screw anything up. Connect it up, format it (full, not quick) a few times and then fill her up and see what happens.
 
Just as Phil said..it won't hurt anything.
Just don't forget to do the master/slave thing.

If you are the cautious type, you could write all zeros (low level format)
before you do the regular full format.

(The writing zeros takes a long time ...hours)
 
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