Finished the clone process and all's well ...hooked the old drive to my
desktop machine and cloned it to my 120gb ext USB drive (fully compressed
took 16gb while the drive was 40gb and was almost full with ~2gb left)
...clone successful and formatted the 40gb drive now having a handy backup
drive
Installed WD-1200VE 120gb 5400 in my x31 with Apricorn Kit ...it was
anything but easy!! Since the Apricorn drive needs 2 USB connections (1
data, 1 power) and the x31 has 2 usb2 ports and the CD-ROM also needs to be
connected (IBM external usb2 multiburner) it's quite a headache! Was on the
3yrs
-Original Message-
From: mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: x31 HDD upgrade
What is the warranty on the WD?
Mike
On 9/23/07, rlsimon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...oh yeah, why did I choose WD ?? ...postings said it's the
...oh yeah, why did I choose WD ?? ...postings said it's the quietest of
all. In my Dell 4400 desktop the WD (which was so quiet I had to look at
the light to see if the box was running) failed after over 5 yrs and I
replaced it with a Seagate Barracuda which is noisier, not real bad but not
What is the warranty on the WD?
Mike
On 9/23/07, rlsimon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...oh yeah, why did I choose WD ?? ...postings said it's the quietest of
all. In my Dell 4400 desktop the WD (which was so quiet I had to look at
the light to see if the box was running) failed after over 5
