Im looking for a new hard drive???

silkyuk9

i have 3 hard drives on my pc. basically i do not know what kind of hard drive to buy, as i am not sure what to buy so it fits into my computer. the hard drive i want to change is only 15 gig and i never use it. The pc im using is kind of made up. I got this second hand so i cannot say what kind it is all i know its not a Dell.


the hard drives are connectted by those ribbon type wires. ive gone into properties and located the drives and this is what it says on the properties tab

IBM-DJNA-351520 if thats any good.

what im looking for is a drive over 100gig so i can put windows 7 onto it. currently using a drive with windows XP.

Toxteth_OGrady

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Generic-Hard-Disk-Drive-160GB/dp/B000OUI8OQ/ref=dp_cp_ob_computers_title_3

closed

wont it go on one of the other drives?

silkyuk9

closed wrote: »

wont it go on one of the other drives?

im not sure what you mean and whom you are directing that comment to????

If me, I have 3 hard drives in my computer, one is 15gig and no use, so i thought id take it out and replace with a larger drive and put windows 7 onto it. thats all.

closed

You could install it on drive 1 or drive 2, which will result in a quieter and cheaper to run pc.

macman

You need a 3.5 inch IDE/PATA drive (not a SATA drive, which is the more modern type with narrow cabling).
But the question you are being asked is: what capacity are the other 2 drives, can you not install W7 on one of them?
Why is the 15GB drive 'no use'? W7 (32 bit) requires about 16GB.
Can your old PC actually run W7, regardless of hard drive capacity?

silkyuk9

macman wrote: »

You need a 3.5 inch IDE/PATA drive (not a SATA drive, which is the more modern type with narrow cabling).
But the question you are being asked is: what capacity are the other 2 drives, can you not install W7 on one of them?
Why is the 15GB drive 'no use'? W7 (32 bit) requires about 16GB.
Can your old PC actually run W7, regardless of hard drive capacity?

i did a test on this hard drive im using and windows 7 sadi it was ok.

now, ive tried removing the 15 gig harddrive which is not use, but my pc will not boot up, don't know why?? so i had to put it back in. I do not know why there is 3 hard drives in my pc, like i sadi it was second hand when i got it. I think one of the other hsrd drives is 50gig and the one i use is 110gig. the 50 gig was ok, and i was using that with windows xp, then something went wrong with it and now will not boot properly. I could reinstall windows xp but TBH cant be bothered. So i use this one now which is a drive that i took out of my old pc. I only put it into this as the drive was bigger, and it was newish.

I would just take out the 15 gig one but like i say my pc just does not boot up for some reason. So i thought i might as well put in a new drive and put windows 7 onto it and gradually transfer things over.

closed

what happens on screen without it in.

did you disable the drive in the bios, is the drive a master or a slave, primary or secondary?

If drives are faulty, you may as well take them out.

macman

It would be clearer if you confirm which drive letters your drives have, and which has which operating system(s) on.
I'm confused, and suspect I'm not the only one.
The primary drive is normally the 'C' drive.
Double clicking on each drive will show it's capacity.

silkyuk9

macman wrote: »

It would be clearer if you confirm which drive letters your drives have, and which has which operating system(s) on.
I'm confused, and suspect I'm not the only one.
The primary drive is normally the 'C' drive.
Double clicking on each drive will show it's capacity.

ok, the drive i use is 'E' Drive this is 110gig and im currently using.

my 'c' drive is 15 gig i think this loads (not tried in years) ok and has windows xp but nothing really on it.

my 'd' drive is 57 gig and i did use it until i had issues and couldnt be bothered to fix them, i could reinstall windows xp i suppose.

Toxteth_OGrady

Can you copy/paste your boot.ini file here. It's just a txt file but it will help see how your drives/OS are configured.


Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
-or-
Click Start, click Run, type sysdm.cpl, and then click OK.
On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and Recovery.
Under System Startup, click Edit.

When you click edit it will open your boot.ini. Paste contents into a reply on here.