Hello.
A couple of weeks ago I managed to get sparks coming out of my hard drive, and I thought I'd got away with it.
Well, I didn't. My PC has been temperamental ever since. It took four attempts to boot up this morning, three system hangs during boot and one total failure to detect that the hard drive was even there. Then it crashed about 10 minutes later. Ran Checkdisk and it found bad sectors all over the place. I'm looking for another 80GB drive, 160GB at a stretch. Cost-wise, up to about £30ish.
Its a 80GB IDE one. I don't mind sticking with IDE but I wouldn't mind getting a SATA one. The problem is my motherboard doesn't support SATA-II as its a few years old. I can't afford to spend a lot on this sp upgrading the motherboard right now is not an option.
Given that my next PC upgrade will likely be a major one (board, RAM, cpu), am I better off:
A) Sticking with IDE, then buy a new drive when I build a new PC
B) Getting a SATA hard drive that can be reused in a new PC.
Will a SATA-II drive work on a board that was only designed to support SATA? Done some googling and indications are that it should, but not all drives are backward compatible so this might be a gamble?
A couple of weeks ago I managed to get sparks coming out of my hard drive, and I thought I'd got away with it.
Well, I didn't. My PC has been temperamental ever since. It took four attempts to boot up this morning, three system hangs during boot and one total failure to detect that the hard drive was even there. Then it crashed about 10 minutes later. Ran Checkdisk and it found bad sectors all over the place. I'm looking for another 80GB drive, 160GB at a stretch. Cost-wise, up to about £30ish.
Its a 80GB IDE one. I don't mind sticking with IDE but I wouldn't mind getting a SATA one. The problem is my motherboard doesn't support SATA-II as its a few years old. I can't afford to spend a lot on this sp upgrading the motherboard right now is not an option.
Given that my next PC upgrade will likely be a major one (board, RAM, cpu), am I better off:
A) Sticking with IDE, then buy a new drive when I build a new PC
B) Getting a SATA hard drive that can be reused in a new PC.
Will a SATA-II drive work on a board that was only designed to support SATA? Done some googling and indications are that it should, but not all drives are backward compatible so this might be a gamble?