can i still use a 6yr old HD for todays system??

[coldfused]

Hi, I really need help - My 120GB Maxtor SATA I hard-drive crashed, its still within warranty and i plan on sending it back to them so that them can give me a shiny new one, but I'm at university now and really need my PC for work, I have an old reliable aptiva at home dating back to 1999, it has a 8GB hard-drive, i think its IDE but I'm not sure, is it possible to use this in my ASUS A8N-SLi motherboard for tempoary time only until I get my other HD fixed?

I'd really be chuffed if someone could let me know.
Thank you!!

 

[sniper007]

In word, yes.

 

[InQ]

Yea it'll be fine, at a guess it'll probably be ATA33 but it'll be an IDE interface for sure....unless its a SCSI drive (unlikely)! Even if its ATA33 your mobo will be backwards compatible so it should be fine.

 

[Kainz]

It'll either be ATA33 or a PIO bugger running at 16mb p/sec like I have on my P2-450 system. It's still running a 6.4gb Seagate Medalist on it lol, but working fine after all these years. It should work fine, but it'll obviously be quite slow, but acceptable.

 

[MAllen]

It will work, but you will soon fill up 8GB with an XP install. There won't really be much room for anything else....

(Did this with a mate last year. Installed XP onto a 10GB hard disk, added a few small progams and one game. That was the drive full....)

 

[Behemoth]

You could always download and run Kinoppix, thats what I did when a HDD failed, used that till the replacment came, that and a usb memory stick worked wonders