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Urgent! Hard Drive is gonna die!!!

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Vortex22

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I just got a warning during POST that one of my hard drives (the one with Windows on it) could fail at any time. Crap. I need to get a new drive...
My question is, If I were to go buy a new hard drive, could I just plug it in and install Windows on it without much hassly or would I have to do something complicated? And if so could someone tell how to go about doing it? I just want Win98SE on one big partition. Please hurry... I think I hear it starting to grind in there!
 
Man..what are you still doing here...get off your butt and get that drive!!! You should have no problem installing 98SE.
 
I'm looking at an IBM GXP 40gb 7200rpm drive. What do you guys think about that one? Does 7200 and 5400 really make much of a difference? Also, I heard that 7200 rpm drives die faster than 5400 ones.. should I be worried about something like that?
 
One more thing... what's the difference between the 60GXP and the 75 GXP? The one that I was looking at was 60. Are those good drives?
 
Any retail HD comes with software that will allow you to copy over your old HD data to the new HD. Or you can download it from web sites from Maxtor and WD.
 
Get a 7200RPM drive. Yes, it does make that much of a difference. The drive should come with software that'll allow you to transfer what's on your drive to the new one. I've only used the one from Maxtor and it worked great!
 
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