Hey i have a asus a7n8x-x motherboard and i think i got an ide Seagate hard drive. Its only 60gb and i wanted to get like a 200gb one except most of the hard drives i see are sata. Can my motherboard use a sata harddrive and if so which one do you think i should get. Price i want to spend is around $130australian. oh and also when i have to reinstall windows xp on it will i need to buy a new cd?
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looked on ASUS website for your board and No it doesnt support or have any Sata connections http://uk.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=219&l1=3&l2=13&l3=58
also went onto ebay and there is a 200gb ide http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.co.uk%2Fws%2F&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=200gb+ide&category0=
and also if you get a program like Norton Ghost 10 or partion magic just clone your partion or hdd.
cya
Damian
looked on ASUS website for your board and No it doesnt support or have any Sata connections http://uk.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=219&l1=3&l2=13&l3=58
also went onto ebay and there is a 200gb ide http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.co.uk%2Fws%2F&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=200gb+ide&category0=
and also if you get a program like Norton Ghost 10 or partion magic just clone your partion or hdd.
cya
Damian
Cloning a partition of a running windows system is quite tricky- unless you don't mind having it bomb on you...
Before cloning, a full defragmentation and running Microsoft's "sysprep" utility are things yoy must do. Also, disabling any filesystem (NTFS) encryption and compression is wise enough.
Before cloning, a full defragmentation and running Microsoft's "sysprep" utility are things yoy must do. Also, disabling any filesystem (NTFS) encryption and compression is wise enough.
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Use ghost 9 run's in Dos or use older version on floppy discs in Dos. Or put hdd's in another pc and copy through another pc so that as you said the operating system its self is not in use.scarecrow said:Cloning a partition of a running windows system is quite tricky- unless you don't mind having it bomb on you...
Before cloning, a full defragmentation and running Microsoft's "sysprep" utility are things yoy must do. Also, disabling any filesystem (NTFS) encryption and compression is wise enough.
Damian
Alrite ive got some money now. And found out about my hard drive.
this is the one i have rite now.
http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,383,00.html
And i was looking at this one on eBay.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Seagate-IDE-200GB-3-5-8MB-HDD-Hard-Disk-Drive-200-GB_W0QQitemZ190003587514QQihZ009QQcategoryZ64463QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Would it work with my motherboard? if not what other ones would u recomend from Australian eBay site?.
this is the one i have rite now.
http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,383,00.html
And i was looking at this one on eBay.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Seagate-IDE-200GB-3-5-8MB-HDD-Hard-Disk-Drive-200-GB_W0QQitemZ190003587514QQihZ009QQcategoryZ64463QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Would it work with my motherboard? if not what other ones would u recomend from Australian eBay site?.
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yes it would work as same connection and speed, just check that your Motherboard does allow 200gb hardrives im pretty sure it would!! GOOD LUCK
Damian Cole
Damian Cole