WTB cheap laptop hard drive

[yuppicide]

My friend needs a really small size.. like 2-4GB working laptop hard drive. He got this old Pentium 166Mhz for free and I told him we should just throw it away, but he invested $22 in a power supply for it. I started it up and can't get it to format. It looks like the hard drive is bad.

[nathanallan]

Why throw it away?? It'll be great to run dos games on and early Windows games. My games laptop is great fun when I take it with me, playing older games.

 

You should be able to find a hdd on ebay easy for next to nothing for a size like that. Keep in mind that with a computer of that era, it may need to have a larger drive (like 10gb) partitioned out. Maybe not, depends on the machine. I wish I had somethign to offer but I don't have parts right now.

 

Nathan

[SINGLE TOOTH]

I have what I belive to be 4 gigs. Ill double check. It came out of a toshiba. But i tried to put it in my IBM thinkpad it was a smidge too tight. Its a standard size, but I think the IBM was just picky.

[yuppicide]

Well, I personally would throw it away. I'm not interested in anything that old. I have a 2.4Ghz now that some MAME games don't run smoothly on.

 

I just bought myself an Intel Quad-Core processor. I'll get the motherboard in 2 weeks. The Asus mobo I am getting can take up to 8GB memory, but that much only works with 64-Bit operating system.