From: Bill (bill@armyfiretrucks.com)
Date: Tue Dec 13 2005 - 15:44:26 PST
Agreed Jay...
In that case I would by one of these Gateway or Dell specials that are
now being advertised for $349 and put the other drive in as a secondary..
Bill
JTravis wrote:
> Bill wrote:
>
>> Wayne,
>>
>> I at a minimum would install a new hard drive. It is an easy thing to
>> install. There are great directions in the box. You will need your
>> original Windows installation disk.
>>
>> This weeks Best Buy flyer here in New Hampshire had an in-store
>> special.... Western Digital 160GB hard drive for sale for $39.99
>> after rebates (#5524373). NOTE: I am not a Best Buy employee either :-)
>>
>> You can then make this your primary drive and leave your other drive
>> in the PC as your secondary drive and still access the pictures and
>> info off of it.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> Wayne Harris wrote:
>>
>>> I've just about filled up my hard drive (33GB) with I hope, military
>>> manuals and pictures. Is there a easy way to be sure what is my
>>> biggest space filler (as a scale type thingy) and if I decide to
>>> move them to some type storage device any recommendations on the
>>> best (meaning easy) thing to do? I did google around a bit but
>>> didn't understand half of it and the other half gave me a headache.
>>> TIA, Wayne
>>>
>>>
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>>
> Bill,
> One thing to consider when buying those huge new modern drives- if he
> is running an older version of Windows before XP, such as Windows
> Millenium, Windows 98, etc., the operating system is limited to being
> able to manage only a total of 120 Gigs, so when shopping to upgrade
> an older system, sometimes a smaller drive is what he may need, or to
> go to XP (or Linux, etc.)
> Jay
>
>
>
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