I have an older gateway e-3200 that i want to buy a hard drive for but i am not sure what standard it is.?
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http://support.gateway.com/s/manuals/servers/eseries/8502684.pdf\nyou can also run an online program called Powerleap Upgrade configuration - http://www.powerleap.com/
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JUst change the HDD with another brand type HDD. Try Western Digital, they are pretty good at hard drives.
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try www.pricewatch.com and use "dell dimension 8300" in the search parameters; but all drives are typically 1 inch tall, so that is not a spec you need to search for. There are 2.5" and 3.5" WIDE drives the first normally for laptops the second for standard desktop computers.
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You can buy a box to stick the harddrive in and plug it into the usb or firewire port if you have one. You may have to give it a different drive letter designation though.
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There are different types of hard drives, but usually the new ones come with an external enclosure with either a USB port or a Firewire (IEEE1394) port.  If you have a computer with either of these ports you are good to go.  Since I have a USB drive, I can provide you these steps:\n\nAssuming that you have switched on your computer, connect the hard drive to the power supply (some drives can directly take power from the USB cable and hence don't need to be connected to the power supply).  So verify first whether your drive needs a power supply.\n\nSecondly, connect the drive via a USB cable to the USB port of your computer.\n\nIf you have Windows XP, it will automatically recognize the drive as a USB device (so you don't have to install special drivers, if you are using Windows 98, you might have to install USB drivers that come with the external drive before connecting it to your PC).\n\nThats it, you are all set.  You can access the drive using Windows Explorer or My Computer and save files to it just like your computer's internal hard drive.
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No, both hard drives are 4.3 GB. Just check for bad clusters (format it) and if they are OK you can use them
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Ebay is about the best place to go. I would get a full copy - OEM is fine just not a upgrade. Windows 2000 is Great - I use it in 90% of my computers - But it works far better if you do a clean install and when you format it you go with NTFS as it is far and away more stable than FAT32 - This is a Great idea for a older computer - Just be sure you have at least 128MB of memory - this is where 2000 starts to work correctly 256MB is the sweet spot where it works great - more than that does not seem to do much!!! The best way to do a clean install is to zero or wipe the drive - Killdisk works well for this. One other note if you want to look up and see what upgrades in memory are available for your machine and what its specs are Kahlon is a great site. See Sources.... Good Luck!!!
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ATA (IDE EIDE), SCSI, SATA\n\nThe link at wiki will give you more.
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In order for older computers to recognize a Hard Drive greater than 528 MB, the BIOS must support LBA (Logical Block Addressing), or the drive must be installed using Disk Manager software.\n\n\nIf a drive is installed without LBA or Disk Manager, then DOS can only recognize up to 1024 cylinders, or 528 MegaBytes. Many computers built prior to 1995 do not have LBA support, and require Disk Manager to be installed in order to see the full size of a large hard drive.
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Yea! Speed\n10,000 rpm is standard in the video business.\nIf you got dough you could buy them.\n5400 is just fine for everything on a home based pc.\n7200 is what you need for transfering data around.\n10,000 for real time stuff.\nSata (serial ata) is the new stuff.\nSata2 is 300+, the real deal.\nIf your motherboard only supports eide get the 7200\ndrive.\nSCUZI drives are an alternitive if your motherboard supports them or you buy an add on card.\nCheck out the links below to find out more.
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You mean SATA II hard drives. Well SATA II hard drives are the most common for home PCs and it is actually very common since it is one of the only types you can get for a home PC. The reason you are having trouble finding your hard drive is due to the size you want it to be. Most PCs carry only a 250 GB or 300 GB hard drive. Rarely could you buy a PC that carries anything larger. Therefore you would rarely find one for sale at that size. What you may want to do is buy two 250GB SATA II drives for a combination of 500GB. This may cost a bit more though unless you pre-order these 500 GB drives, you won't have much selection in normal electronic stores.\n\nEDIT: When you are looking for hard drives, make sure you are looking for internal hard drives, and for desktop PCs.
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If you have a Maxtor or a WD hard drive, go to their web site.  They have a tool you can download for free (but only works on their drives as the target drive) that will do what you want.\n\nIt's basically the same tool, but setup to work for only that company.
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I suspect that you are using eide drive now as sata drives are fairly new. Just look at the existing hard drive and if it uses a wide ribbon cable to connect to the motherboard you use old style ide/pata if it has small connectors with small cables it is sata.
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Check the hard drives.  Normally their will be a little plastic tab that you can move to different sets of jumper wires at the end of the hard drive.  These determine whether a hard drive is consider the master drive, a slave drive, or is assigned master or slave depending on which connector on the cable it is attached to.  There will normally be either a small chart or some labels by the jumpers that show where the tab needs to be for the drive to be master, slave or cable select.  \n\nRecord the settings for each drive.  Then set the tabs to match the setting of the old drive.  (Meaning if the drive in computer A is master, and the drive in B is cable select, the set A to cable select and B to master.  Then swap them, putting them on the same connector the old drive came off.\n\nHopefully then the PCs will boot up with the swapped drives
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ok you only want the system to surf the net, i pressume you will at some point want to watch video files?\nso you want a system with a minimum 512MB 333mhz or faster (higher numbered) DDR or DDRII RAM(Minimum).\nprocessor speed of 1.8GHz (1800Mhz) is a little slow but will work adequetly (i built a system for a neighbour with similer requirements to yours)\nas much cach level 1 and level 2 as possible (the higher the number the better)\n\nfor your needs as a beginer 120GB (unformatted) 111GB approx (formatted) should be a good starting point, however make sure the hard drive RPM is above 7200RPM and if the system has SATA capability even if the system has no sata drive installed will enable you to upgrade to larger hard drives (although you can upgrade your primary drive) SATA transfers faster than PATA/UDMA/IDE drives of the same size and RPM.\n\nif you can make sure the System has seagate brand hard drive(s) as this brand is the most reliable you can get.\nyou should also check the systems PSU (Power Supply Unit) as most budget systems come with only around a 350 to 400W this will in the short term be ok your system may (if you get the right PSU) work faster and with a greater level of system stability with a much larger PSU for example in my primary system i have a 650W PSU but then i'm running 7 internal hard drives, 1 DVD burner, floppy multiple PCI cards, AGP graphics card, AMD Sempron 3400 CPU.\n\nyour current system at 240MB? that sounds a little problem? as memory is normaly in multiples such as 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1024MB (1GB), and buffered or unbuffered you should never mix buffered and unbuffered in the same system or your system will become unstable.\nremember when you get your new system you should be able to install the old hard drive in the new system for ease of accessing your old personal data.\n\nif you were local to me i could possibly provide better assistance such as either browsing the stores with you or buying the components and assembling the system yourself.\nremember that if you do build a new computer and scrap your old one you can get away with using your old software, some of your old hardware such as your display panel keyboard and mouse etc.\nthe only think you would realy need to buy would be new main board, CPU, RAM, and possibly a new hard drive. you then just scrap your old system components. which means if money is tight why buy a complete new system if you only need the new components, by buying and building selectively you can get more for your money effectively. however unless you know what you are doing you could fry the componets as they are electostaticaly sensetive, so you need to ground yourself with a wrist strap or other device when building your system remeber to ground to any properly earthed such as a cable connected to bare copper on a central heating system or other similar instalation.
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It's not likely that you'll ever find the old Low Density disks. Some stores still sell the HD variety, but the LD's passed in to oblivion. I would suggest you look at places that might sell old computers. When I needed an old old replacement pc part, I found what I needed at Goodwill and Salvation Army stores. Garage sales sometimes will have some. At anyrate, the HD disks will work in LD drives. So I wouldn't really concern yourself in finding the LD disks, which would mean I just wasted a lot of time explaining all of this you.
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Usually the company websites contain the drives, but it didnot help in your case.\n\nSo better lookup at http://www.bebits.com/app/1622\n\nThis should work for you, otherwise mail the Nvidia guys.\n\nHave good time