Netvista A60i model 6832 upgrade

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elco1980

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howdy everyone, ive been looking into adding a second hardrive into my computer since i only have 40 gb in my original hardrive. I am only looking for something cheap and ide be happy with an extra 20 gigs or if there is a bigger hdd for cheap ofcourse i will get it. Ive seen some nice priced 80 Gb HDD on ebay. Anyways i am not sure if i can add a second hardrive and what type of harddrive i should get. I own a Netvista A60i model number 6832 40U computer and the current hardrive it has is a 40 gb quantumfireballp AS40.0 acording sosoft sandra. Anyways i am wondering if anyone knows what is the best hardrive i can add (again looking for cheap and not too big, say 80gb max) and also if i can add one at all.

Thanks for your help,
Nico
 
look on newegg.com, as you said, you can most likely only get an ide drive, you might want to get a new 80 pin cable though too with two connections cause your current one might only have one plug for devices
 
suprasteve said:
look on newegg.com, as you said, you can most likely only get an ide drive, you might want to get a new 80 pin cable though too with two connections cause your current one might only have one plug for devices
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howdy thanks for your reply. Yesi opened my comp up and i would need a new cable mine only has 1. The only problem i see now is that there doesnt seem to be another space to put a second hardrive in there. Wondering what i can do. DO i need to get a bigger hardrive then my 40 gig one and replace the whole drive? in which case how would i transfer everything that i have from my old drive to the new one? If i cant do that i may just be limited to an external one and if that is the case would an external drive with usb 2.0 still work on my usb 1.1 ports? or do i need to find a usb 1.1 external harddrive. Thanks for all your help,

Nico
 
you can replace the whole drive, but you ought to be able to rig something up to hold a drive, my friend set up a server with 4 drives in a case that only holds two, the last one is held in by a careful duct taping job, but I wouldn't suggest duct tape, but there ought to be somewhere to stick it. As far as an external, usb is backwards compatible, but it will run quite slow and you probably won't want a drive running at the speed it would
 
suprasteve said:
you can replace the whole drive, but you ought to be able to rig something up to hold a drive, my friend set up a server with 4 drives in a case that only holds two, the last one is held in by a careful duct taping job, but I wouldn't suggest duct tape, but there ought to be somewhere to stick it. As far as an external, usb is backwards compatible, but it will run quite slow and you probably won't want a drive running at the speed it would
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Howdy,
Thanks for the reply! Yes when i opened my comp, there is plenty of room, just no extra interior bays to put the hardrive on. I mean worse comes to worse i could always get some sort of bracket to fit a hardrive and drill a couple small holes on the bottom of the casing to add screws to accomodate a new bracket but from what i read i could use my 5.5" bay (which i now have a dvd rom which i never use) and remove the dvd rom and get a braket that will step down from 5.5" to 3.5" and stick my harddrive in there. I was looking at a seagate 200 GB harddrive thats on sale for very cheap and it is an ata100 IDE interface so i imagine if i get that one it would work okey. My next issue is that i don't know if my system can take a 200 GB harddrive. Ofcourse i want that drive to be the slave drive as i will be using it for data storage mainly and i could use my 40 gb harddrive as a master. I read somewhere thought that if my computer can't take that much capacity then you can jumper certain pins to have a capacity limit. Again i am a newbie at this so i still need to do more research.

Thanks for your help,
Nico
 
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the only thing that might not work about the drive is it might not completely show up if you don't partition it, depending on what operating system you have. If you don't have XP SP1 or earlier, the largest it will show up as is 137 GB, but you can partition it into two 100gb drives and they'll noth show up. If you want to use a 5.25 bay, you could get a hard drive cooler for a couple bucks that will fit in the 5.25 and has fans to keep the hard drive cool, worth looking into at least. And when you get the drive, you'll have to adjust the jumper so that it is the slave drive
 
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