Thread: Hard Drives
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Old 15-08-2008, 07:30   #2
entwisi
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Re: Hard Drives

there are a couple of different standards, your disks are probably IDE( from the age of your PC), new ones are SATA. new motherboards may not have an IDE controller built in but you can get add on boards that do, an alternative is to shove it in a USB external HD case and use it that way.

Its not insurmountable and todays disks are so huge etc its easy to just copy teh stuff across and then use the old one as a backup disk via teh above mentioned USB method
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