Thread: HDD Swap - What would you do?

By a new drive or format the 250GB, use it for storage.

Move all the unecessary files off the 40GB drive & just use that to run your OS.

as what gumby190 said.....

Reformat the 250 and slave it off the 40. Having the OS and not much else on the 40 will make things a lot quicker when it comes to defragging.

I'd move data such as music, videos & pics onto the 250, but leave programs that I use a lot on the 40... such as firewall, anti-virus, ms office, firefox and favourite games - things that might operate a tad better sitting next to the OS.

oh.... burn to cd/dvd anything critical prior the above, just in case Mr Murphy drops by....

good luck,

Pete

Originally Posted by gumby190

By a new drive or format the 250GB, use it for storage.

Move all the unecessary files off the 40GB drive & just use that to run your OS.

Gumby190 is spot on.
I have two drives, one for the computer and computer opperating files, the second for storage.

Why?

Simple, if the thing crashes, by second HDD with all the important files, is still okay and can be fitted to another machine.

I also regularly back up my files on DVD's.

Cheers,

me personally, i'd be ditching the 40, they are usually way slower drives than the 250 and most boxes slow their bus to the slowest attached device...

whether you can see or need the speed increase is the next question..

How old is the 40?

Get a new one.

Cheers
Simon

buy a external hard drive 120+ gig about $120.00.use it to back up and save all files so when the old 40 dies you lose stuff all.I have a seagate which I use for both laptops and it works well.

Originally Posted by xxXX_LR V8_XXxx

as what gumby190 said.....

Reformat the 250 and slave it off the 40. Having the OS and not much else on the 40 will make things a lot quicker when it comes to defragging.

I'd move data such as music, videos & pics onto the 250, but leave programs that I use a lot on the 40... such as firewall, anti-virus, ms office, firefox and favourite games - things that might operate a tad better sitting next to the OS.

oh.... burn to cd/dvd anything critical prior the above, just in case Mr Murphy drops by....

good luck,

Pete

Originally Posted by tracker

buy a external hard drive 120+ gig about $120.00.use it to back up and save all files so when the old 40 dies you lose stuff all.I have a seagate which I use for both laptops and it works well.

Just buy an external case for maybe $50 (disclaimer, I suffer from CRAFT) and you have the rest.
All my 'stuff' is now on the exo and the 40 is just basically OS.

Overwhelming feedback is buy a new one. I really don't want to have to install 2 new OS. Especially the HTPC machine, temperamental beast it is.

Cheers.