Re: What IDE Drive for my 5 year old Dell8200

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Do i get the Motherboard details off of the board?

Steve

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Hi Anna
Yes it is a Dimension8200

I asked Dell if it was 100GB in total and they said yes, I asked if i could
use 2 of them and they said only 100GB in total.
I am running XPSP2 and once if replace my Floppy Drive I will upgrade the
Bios to A09 (latest on dell downlaods).

If i was to put a large (say 160GB) disk in as a slave and it is recognised
in the Bios and once formatted indicates about +150GB in My Computer then can
I presume it is OK to use. I want to clone my existing 60GB disk to the new
160GB disk.

The RDRAM is great, never had a problem with it, have now got 1250MB
installed but the P4 1.9GHz could do with being a bit faster as it's not as
quick as it could be!!

Thanks
Steve

I wouldn't trust Dell tech support. Get the model number of your motherboard
and look up it's specs online direct from the manufacturer.
My PC is 4+ years old and works just fine. I don't really have any speed
issues, running an AMD Athlon 1 GHz with 512 MB RAM on a K7S5A MB with 2 hard
drives, a 120GB and a 40GB. I don't believe I've done any BIOS updates. Both
my hard drives are WD 7200, which I recommend if you're on a budget. If you
feel a need for speed and have some extra cash, look into a Raptor drive.



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