Installing And OS on a 5400RPM Drive?

wentalong · 1 Apr 2011 at 08:13

Heyy guys,

Im about to install windows 7 on my pc, and ive got a few problems: i cant upgrade because im on XP so i loose all my stuff, and im going to have to install it on a 40GB 5400RPM seagate i found lying around, im going to install it on the seagate because ive fulled my 320GB hdd with stuff and i cant copy it to anything because i only have a 160GB external HDD, and i think that laptops full of my dads laptop back up but im not sure,so if i was to install windows 7 ona 5400 drive, would it be such a difference im better off formatting my 30GB and installing it there? because ive still got my games running off the 7200, what do you reccommend?!?

Please help :/ Many thanks!

~Mike~ · 1 Apr 2011 at 08:23

As your HDD is already full you really need to buy a new one.

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache £29.99

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache £39.98 This Week Only Offer

wentalong · 1 Apr 2011 at 08:26

i was looking at that seagate earlier aswell, but im totally skint atm -.- and i really wanna get 7 installed before my 6950 arrives :/ ,

sypher365 · 1 Apr 2011 at 08:30

It can be installed on a slower drive but the cost of harddrives these days its probably easier to but another faster drive.

Looking at the size of the drives I'm guessing they may be old ide drives? if so check here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18258251&highlight=ide+drives

If you have SATA connections and you don't need loads of space
Samsung SpinPoint F4 320GB http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-101-SA is a quick low powered, quick, quite drive.

or for not much more

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279

and then get a usb caddy or hardrive docking bay to get the data off your old drives.

~Mike~ · 1 Apr 2011 at 08:37

sypher365 said:
It can be installed on a slower drive but the cost of harddrives these days its probably easier to but another faster drive.

Looking at the size of the drives I'm guessing they may be old ide drives? if so check here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18258251&highlight=ide+drives

If you have SATA connections and you don't need loads of space
Samsung SpinPoint F4 320GB http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-101-SA is a quick low powered, quick, quite drive.

or for not much more

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279

and then get a usb caddy or hardrive docking bay to get the data off your old drives.

Why recommend a 320GB drive?

OP already has a FULL 320GB drive. For £29.99 you can get 500GB.

wentalong · 1 Apr 2011 at 08:48

thanks for the help, i think ill just have to save all my games installers to the spare 40GB and reinstall them after, its a pain, and i wont have enough room for all my games, but hopefully my dads 160GB Externall HDD has some room on it :/

sypher365 · 1 Apr 2011 at 08:48

Mike306 said:
Why recommend a 320GB drive?

OP already has a FULL 320GB drive. For £29.99 you can get 500GB.

I know its a smaller drive but it is a very impressive drive for its speed, noise and power consumption, personally used a few in raid 0 setups in different machines and can't fault them, but yeah you can get larger drives for the same kind of money 1Tb sub £40 and 2Tb sub £58 now and they will only get cheaper

Which is also why I stated get a caddy or docking station for the old drive.

sypher365 · 1 Apr 2011 at 08:52

Having something like this Sharkoon SATA QuickPort XT USB3.0 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-009-SH&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=72 is nice if you have a number of drives lying around and can't be bothered to install them phsically each time you want to back up or grab data off an old drive.