Suggestion: 1. leaving your old drive in, reboot to the BIOS, and record the voltages shown in the PC Health screan. 2. Power off, remove the power and IDE connectors to the old drive. Move them both to the new drive. 3. Reboot into the BIOS. Note the new voltages, paying particular attention to the 12V reading. If 12V +/- 0.3v you're OK so far. 4. Go to the set up menu where it recognizes IDE drives. You may have to tell it to rescan the IDE bus. Note whether it "sees" the new drive and if it reads back the correct capacity.
At this point you've done what you can to verify that it might work. If you've got the time, you can try a simple Windows install and verify that you can reboot to the OS. At that point, you'll need to copy your old drive to the new one, so temporarily you'll need a bit more power. Keep in mind if you've got another PSU laying about (doesn't everyone?) you can use it to power the extra drive if you have to for the purposes of copying: Per, http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/perf/spec/otherPower-c.html A drive averages about 12W steady state and peaks to 25W or so. So, probably two drives will work fine, but there isn't much head room there. -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
