In Reply to: RE: Inferior sound from USB external drive? posted by bean on October 20, 2014 at 12:05:58:
I am assuming that the existing hard drive on your old computer is small. You may well have problems with the BIOS that limit your use of the new hard drive. These may possibly even create the impression that the entire storage capacity is usable, leading to potential future data corruption when exceeding the actual limit. (It's been a few years since I investigated this situation, so I don't recall the details. But I know there's are real problems with some older gear and there are various size thresholds that, when crossed, can create problems. These may include drive size and volume size.)
Before loading any good files on your new drive, I would do some serious testing. First, I would do a full format, not a quick format. Second, if this succeeds, I would put lots of large files on the drive, enough to run out of space and verify that these write correctly without corruption. If these tests pass, then I would reformat the drive and start over. Alternatively, I would research the situation thoroughly, as there may be information about your specific configuration available or there may be quick diagnostic tests you can run to see what will happens.
In the end, I junked my machine. I even had to pay to junk it. :-( I didn't feel too bad, as the machine was truly ancient, having started out running Windows 98.
Another older Windows XP from 2001 had a hard drive failure and I replaced the hard drive with a much larger disk. It turned out that the BIOS for this machine would not support a single volume the size of the new drive, so I had to format two volumes. This machine still runs Windows XP, but ever slower due to application bloat. However, I have yet to get it to run a modern Linux distro. There seems to be a graphics driver problem...
Be prepared to junk your old machine and definitely be pleasantly surprised if you can get it to work.
Tony Lauck
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Follow Ups
- RE: Inferior sound from USB external drive? - Tony Lauck 10/20/1412:32:38 10/20/14 (11)
- *New* computers that already support SATA - E-Stat 12:51:10 10/20/14 (10)
- Good Thread For Me - Awe-d-o-file 17:31:29 10/21/14 (4)
- RE: Good Thread For Me - J.Mac 17:49:00 10/21/14 (3)
- just make your backups very slow - fmak 05:43:51 10/22/14 (0)
- RE: Good Thread For Me - E-Stat 17:55:52 10/21/14 (1)
- RE: Good Thread For Me - J.Mac 18:06:47 10/21/14 (0)
- RE: yeah, a new cheapo PC is my backup plan - bean 17:21:43 10/20/14 (4)
- 96 vs 192 khz - Tom Schuman 02:31:30 10/25/14 (1)
- RE: 96 vs 192 khz - Tony Lauck 12:39:55 10/25/14 (0)
- RE: yeah, a new cheapo PC is my backup plan - J.Mac 10:31:44 10/21/14 (1)
- RE: yeah, a new cheapo PC is my backup plan - Tony Lauck 18:57:23 10/22/14 (0)