Hard Disk advice

[DeadEnd]

I have a problem. need help with what kind of hard disk drive i should replace my Quantum BigFoot TS12.7A(pm) with. my computer is telling me mine is failing. .please help me.

[mjc]

Need a little more to go on than that.....like what kind of system do you have (CPU, age, memory, etc), OS version, size of the drive and whether you want a larger one....

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[DeadEnd]

hey first thanks for the quick reply. heres is everything. its a Hewlett Packard 8496. it has a Pentium3 500Mhz 512 cache, it o/s is windows 98 it has 128mb of memory & the hard drive has 8455mb . i dont really know how old it is but it cant be older than 5 years old. thanks again for all your help.

[iisbob]

Any size you want. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

Even though your BIOS will probably not recognize HD's larger than 8GB's-with the provided Drive Overlay software in a new HD purchase you can put any size drive you wish; from 20GB's up to 120 GB's should you choose.

My recommendation would be for a 30-40 GB size, they have pretty much become standard and it should fullfill all your storage requirements.



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[mjc]

Yep...agree with iisbob, just about any size but the 40 gig range seems to be the best price area right now, and I would go with a 7200rpm drive....

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