Adding a second Hard Drive to a computer

[Wardad]

Originally posted by Thermodyne:

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Originally posted by DarkHorse:

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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
... And there is one very popular chipset in wide use that is becoming notorious for corrupting data written to the hard drive if default bios settings are used.

Which chipset are you referring to?

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Sorry, I’m not rich and powerful enough to say that in a public forum. PM me.

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I research my parts, on the WEB, before I buy them now. I am using an MSI brand motherboard. Their technology always seems to lag months behind other brands, but they are reliable, supported and documented.

There is a PC Club store near me. They carry good quality stuff. But I would still reasearch the stuff first.

I learned my lesson the hard way at a cheap outlet.
Example: TNT2 video card made by ARCADE. The first one did not work at all, the second kept crashing 3D programs. I spent hours trying different drivers. I gave up on it, returned it and got charged a restocking fee. I replaced it with a highly rated brand name and had no trouble after that.

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Really? Well, then I'll charge double. Bwahahahahaha

[ January 03, 2003, 22:01: Message edited by: Wardad ]

[Wardad]

SJ, You back up the registry?

I only backup my Malfador Machinations folder, the documents I create, and the few other things I download.

I worked with some techs who were dedicated gamers. They wiped their hard drive clean 3 times a year and started over with a fresh copy of Win95 (Win98 too?).
That's a little to much work for me. I'd hate to spend hours on-line updating winblows, directx, and norton security.

[Gandalph]

Originally posted by Wardad:
SJ, You back up the registry?

I only backup my Malfador Machinations folder, the documents I create, and the few other things I download.

I worked with some techs who were dedicated gamers. They wiped their hard drive clean 3 times a year and started over with a fresh copy of Win95 (Win98 too?).
That's a little to much work for me. I'd hate to spend hours on-line updating winblows, directx, and norton security.

Back when I used Win9x, I did the same thing but at 6 month intervals. Windows is a garbage collector and if you are constantly downloading, installing, uninstalling, testing demos, etc., it gets pretty bad pretty quick. It was much easier to just start fresh and, with the OEM push install disk, less time consuming then trying to solve the multiple problems created.

[Suicide Junkie]

SJ, You back up the registry?

Well, having a clean, and fully set-up registry is better than having to reinstall everything

Not to mention that all the networking, and other annoying stuff is caught by the image too

[Fyron]

I am now reformatting my HD to have a separate partition for Winblows. 3 GB should be enough. It will allow me to wipe it and reinstall windows easily in the future, to keep the system at optimal levels.

[Wardad]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I am now reformatting my HD to have a separate partition for Winblows. 3 GB should be enough. It will allow me to wipe it and reinstall windows easily in the future, to keep the system at optimal levels.

You make that sound easy. Don't the applications need to be setup in the registry?

[capnq]

I've done complete HD reformats and clean reinstalls of Windows95 twice; once to purge a particularly nasty virus, and once to rebuild a corrupted device driver.

I may have to try to add a second HD to this system; I think the scavenged HD has the drivers for the backup monitor.