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Old 8th Sep 2017, 11:37 am   #36
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Default Re: New hard drive for Pentium IV

The new PC arrived this morning. I have powered it up briefly and it is indeed extremely quiet, booted fine (w10).

Before passing all the data over from old PC to new, I was thinking about putting the 500GB SATA drive from yesterday's find into the new PC as a second drive. That would give me some 750GB to play with, not far off my initial idea of 1TB. There are spare SATA terminals on MoBo and cable.

There is, however, limited space inside the new SFF desktop. I think it would fit into the blank bay reserved for floppy drive or card reader - anyone advise on that?

The next step would then be to format it and check for errors. I read these PCs have some sort of SMART auto diagnostic. How best do I go about this?
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