60 Hard Drives

I am seeking a 60 GB EIDE Hard Drive. would a Notebook HD work with a
PC?

It is now hard to find lower capacity hard drives at Staples, Circuit
City ETC. Though I like western, I found one, but it sayd note book.

Western Digital Scorpio.

Thanks

Teak

teak

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:18:20 -0700, teak <>
wrote:

>I am seeking a 60 GB EIDE Hard Drive. would a Notebook HD work with a
>PC?

Partly.
1 - You will need a convertor, because laptops use a different
plug for IDE and power (US $ 10 - 15, I'm told
2 - You will need a mounting convertor. Your desktop accomodates
3.5" drives, laptop drives are 2.5"
3 - Laptop drives tend to be 5400 RPM types. Low power
consumption, low noise. And low speed.

My 2 cents: a notebook drive is no solution.

--
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok

Gerard Bok

TigerDirect.com sells 40GB (Maxtor or Seagate-$45) and 80GB (Westen Digital
Caviar-$50)
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=522&Nav=|c:134|&Sort=3&Recs =10

Tom
"teak" <> wrote in message
news: ups.com...
>I am seeking a 60 GB EIDE Hard Drive. would a Notebook HD work with a
> PC?
>
> It is now hard to find lower capacity hard drives at Staples, Circuit
> City ETC. Though I like western, I found one, but it sayd note book.
>
> Western Digital Scorpio.
>
> Thanks
>
> Teak
>

Tom Benoit

"teak" <> wrote in message
news: ups.com...
>I am seeking a 60 GB EIDE Hard Drive. would a Notebook HD work with a
> PC?
>
> It is now hard to find lower capacity hard drives at Staples, Circuit
> City ETC. Though I like western, I found one, but it sayd note book.
>
> Western Digital Scorpio.
>
> Thanks
>
> Teak
>
Can find plenty of smaller hard drives on Ebay.

Shadow36

On Sep 28, 5:44 pm, "Shadow36" <n...@no.com> wrote:
> "teak" <t...@linuxmail.org> wrote in message
>
> news: ups.com...>I am seeking a 60 GB EIDE Hard Drive. would a Notebook HD work with a
> > PC?
>
> > It is now hard to find lower capacity hard drives at Staples, Circuit
> > City ETC. Though I like western, I found one, but it sayd note book.
>
> > Western Digital Scorpio.
>
> > Thanks
>
> > Teak
>
> Can find plenty of smaller hard drives on Ebay.


Thanks, I am ordering 80 gig, I hope Windows XP works on this My 180
and 260 are too big for my Mother Board..

Thanks again

teak

teak wrote:
> I am seeking a 60 GB EIDE Hard Drive. would a Notebook HD work with a
> PC?
>
> It is now hard to find lower capacity hard drives at Staples, Circuit
> City ETC. Though I like western, I found one, but it sayd note book.
>
> Western Digital Scorpio.
>
> Thanks
>
> Teak
>
You have to buy an IDE adapter to connect a notebook HD to a IDE ribbon
cable. Make sure you use the 80 wire cable.

middle_class_warrior

Why not purchase a HD controller such as the Promise Ultra ATA/100
controller? These have their own BIOS which will work with pretty
much any motherboard. I've used many times when the motherboard BIOS
just will not let a large HD work. Your 180 and 260 GB HD should work
without any problems.

Do a search on eBay for Promise IDE


On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:46:59 -0700, teak <> wrote:

>On Sep 28, 5:44 pm, "Shadow36" <n...@no.com> wrote:
>> "teak" <t...@linuxmail.org> wrote in message
>>
>> news: ups.com...>I am seeking a 60 GB EIDE Hard Drive. would a Notebook HD work with a
>> > PC?
>>
>> > It is now hard to find lower capacity hard drives at Staples, Circuit
>> > City ETC. Though I like western, I found one, but it sayd note book.
>>
>> > Western Digital Scorpio.
>>
>> > Thanks
>>
>> > Teak
>>
>> Can find plenty of smaller hard drives on Ebay.
>
>
>Thanks, I am ordering 80 gig, I hope Windows XP works on this My 180
>and 260 are too big for my Mother Board..
>
>Thanks again

Mister

I second this; a HD controller card is one way to go.
An overlay program is another possibility. I use both
in a 2001 vintage machine. It has the 137GB BIOS limit.
It has a 300GB drive employing an overlay and a 400GB
drive on a controller card. Both solutions are cheap;
the overlay is free software available from the drive
manufacturer site, and a controller card is cheaper
than another drive; as I remember I paid about $15 for
the one in this box.
--
Mister wrote:
> Why not purchase a HD controller such as the Promise Ultra ATA/100
> controller? These have their own BIOS which will work with pretty
> much any motherboard. I've used many times when the motherboard BIOS
> just will not let a large HD work. Your 180 and 260 GB HD should work
> without any problems.
>
> Do a search on eBay for Promise IDE
>
>
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:46:59 -0700, teak <> wrote:
>
>> On Sep 28, 5:44 pm, "Shadow36" <n...@no.com> wrote:
>>> "teak" <t...@linuxmail.org> wrote in message
>>>
>>> news: ups.com...>I am seeking a 60 GB EIDE Hard Drive. would a Notebook HD work with a
>>>> PC?
>>>> It is now hard to find lower capacity hard drives at Staples, Circuit
>>>> City ETC. Though I like western, I found one, but it sayd note book.
>>>> Western Digital Scorpio.
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Teak
>>> Can find plenty of smaller hard drives on Ebay.
>>
>> Thanks, I am ordering 80 gig, I hope Windows XP works on this My 180
>> and 260 are too big for my Mother Board..
>>
>> Thanks again
>

Bill Eitner