Ashley Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Again someone else's PC (my grandads). Load it up it says "No operating system." Load up the computer with the Windows 98 CD in and says "could not install windows 98 because there is no hard drive or the hard drive has a problem" (or something similar) so im thinking; hard drive shot to shit. Am I correct? And seeing as this PC is 5 years old (early 2000 it was bought) he's buggered cause you won't be able to get a new hard drive to fit with such an old system right? Specs: Pentium III Processor, 500MGHz 64MB PC-100 SDRAM 10GB Hard Drive Then the rest is piffy stuff like speakers (getting this from catalogue btw). So basically, theres no hope is there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christophicus Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 It does sound like the harddrive is shot but you should be easily able to get a new drive for it,its probably an ide drive that you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Is the drive being found in the bios ? It does sound like its knackered though. Easy to get a replacement, just an ordinary pata drive. Looking at about 35 quid for a 40GB drive, thats the smallest you can buy nowadays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadKill Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Sounds like the drive is shot. As everyone's already said, it's easy as pie to find a cheap IDE drive to replace it. Oh and by the way, there's such thing as megagigahertz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mario114 Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 10gb hard drive, do they come that small?, mine is 160gb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 Oh and by the way, there's such thing as megagigahertz. If my project works out, there will be :awesome: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted October 2, 2005 Author Share Posted October 2, 2005 10gb hard drive, do they come that small?, mine is 160gb! They used to, many moons ago. So anyway, would something like this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Compaq-40GB-IDE-UATA-133-7200-Rpm-Hard-Drive_W0QQitemZ8701261772QQcategoryZ16178QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem be okay (random ebay find). Im clueless when it comes to the hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christophicus Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 yeah it should work although ,you might not be able to use it to its full potential,the bios might not accept the whole of the drive size so it might only say that there is 20 or 30 Gb,although id say that more then likely you will be able to use all of it. someone else said that there might need to be a different drve type you have to use,you should open your computer and fallow the the flat wide wire that goes from the harddrive and see where it connects into the motherboard,then see if it says IDE anywhere neer the connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Offerman Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 10gb hard drive, do they come that small?, mine is 160gb! It was only 6 years ago that 10Gb was the norm. My first computer had an 800Mb hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jordan Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 Mine had a (huge for the time) 400mb HDD. Now i have nearly a terrabyte in my server. Ahhhh how times have changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 It was only 6 years ago that 10Gb was the norm. My first computer had an 800Mb hard drive. 800mb? Mine had a 200mb ish drive I think :P My grandpa's old computer had even less, 2mb RAM, no Windows :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Offerman Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 800mb? Mine had a 200mb ish drive I think :P My grandpa's old computer had even less, 2mb RAM, no Windows :P Well my Dad had one before that, that had a 20Mb drive. That was 1990 I believe - when I was very young. EDIT - So whats the biggest you can get at the moment? Is it 400Gbs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christophicus Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 Hitachi(spelling?) I think its tghem anyway have a 500 gig drive out now, Jordan what do youse use all that space for ?downloading every single porn movie you come across? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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