re: ADD?Replace 12Gig Drive. Dell 450MH
Thursday, January 15, 2004 at 5:45 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MrCharlie
(4141 messages posted)
Why don't you just buy a 20gb hard drive then copy the contents of your old hard
drive to the new one. It's very easy to do, then your back in business. I like Western
Digital, you can download the program to copy your hard drive from their website
or the drive should come with the disk. I would stick with 98se.
On Thursday, January 15, 2004 at 4:37 pm, Limey wrote:
>My computer is a Dell 450 MH Dimension, running Win 98. Generally, I am still happy
>enough with the Dell that I don't want to buy a new machine. However, the 12 Gig
>HD is constantly bumping the low storage alarm, and I am getting tired of removing
>and deleting files. A bigger HD seems inevitable. I have two CD ROM drives and a
>ZIP, in addition to my A drive. There are no more bus cables to use. I have a USB
>expander with spare ports. My printer is on parallel bus.
>How should I proceed; how big a drive should I go for and of what manufacturer?
Can
>I keep what I have (I am terrified of starting with a fresh driveand being down
for
>days struggling), while adding another? Lastly, for a future upgrade, ME was recommended
>by a friend, but he cautioned that it takes a ton of memory and storage. Also, the
>2nd ME edition is due out. Any comments? Thanks.
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