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Hi. I have purchased a new athlon 3500 and other relevant components, but I was wandering if I could still connect my 6 year old hard drive that came with my pentium 3 700 mhz to it?
The old hardrive is messed up, a windows file was deleted, I was hoping to still retrieve the data stored there though. |
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if u runt he same os, then you could probably retrieve the files. which os was the old comp running?
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Well if you only use it as a non running backup drive... i would not run any games or programs from the hard drive... Basically use it as ONLY storage. The reason for this is the thing *probably has a lot slower speeds than your new hd. The basic tid bit of knowledge is that your computer will only run as fast as your slowest IDE drive. Which means NEW fast computer+Old Small HD = New Slow computer...
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Ok, cool.
I amplanning on just copying the information over to the new hard drive and keeping the old one disconnected and as a backup. I was just worried that the old one wouldn't connect to the new motherboard. Thanks for the help. |
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the old drive will almost def connect....its ide cable, and its pretty much compatible to all motherboards.
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