Old Hard drive compatable?

BlueDogAnchorite · 10-06-2005, 07:22 PM

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.

BlueDogAnchorite · 10-06-2005, 07:50 PM

I've obviously got a nice new hard drive for the athlon, but still need to access the old one.

Johnnyboy0056 · 10-06-2005, 08:36 PM

if u runt he same os, then you could probably retrieve the files. which os was the old comp running?

Trizoy · 10-06-2005, 09:50 PM

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...

BlueDogAnchorite · 10-06-2005, 10:46 PM

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.

Johnnyboy0056 · 10-07-2005, 12:08 AM

the old drive will almost def connect....its ide cable, and its pretty much compatible to all motherboards.

10-06-2005, 07:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
BlueDogAnchorite Bronze Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 58	Old Hard drive compatable? 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.

10-06-2005, 08:36 PM	#3 (permalink)
Johnnyboy0056 Platinum Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Miami, Florida Age: 25 Posts: 666	if u runt he same os, then you could probably retrieve the files. which os was the old comp running? __________________ John G. :rolleyes: Sweet Ride- By Me, For Me :) ____________________________________________ ATX Clear Side Tower with 500 Watt Power Supply EPoX 5NVA+sli Motherboard Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.40 GHz 1 GB DDR2 RAM (2 x 512 MB) Seagate 160 GB HDD w/ SATA Connection ATI Radeon X700 PCI Express Video Card

10-06-2005, 09:50 PM	#4 (permalink)
Trizoy VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Mountain View, Ca Posts: 4,683	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... __________________ 01100110 01100001 01110010 01110100

10-07-2005, 12:08 AM	#6 (permalink)
Johnnyboy0056 Platinum Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Miami, Florida Age: 25 Posts: 666	the old drive will almost def connect....its ide cable, and its pretty much compatible to all motherboards. __________________ John G. :rolleyes: Sweet Ride- By Me, For Me :) ____________________________________________ ATX Clear Side Tower with 500 Watt Power Supply EPoX 5NVA+sli Motherboard Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.40 GHz 1 GB DDR2 RAM (2 x 512 MB) Seagate 160 GB HDD w/ SATA Connection ATI Radeon X700 PCI Express Video Card

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10-06-2005, 07:50 PM	#2 (permalink)
BlueDogAnchorite Bronze Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 58	I've obviously got a nice new hard drive for the athlon, but still need to access the old one.

10-06-2005, 10:46 PM	#5 (permalink)
BlueDogAnchorite Bronze Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 58	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.