Hard Drive

[bulio]

hi ppl, i am interested to buy and additional hard drive because mine is only 20 gigs, and I want to have a hard drive to run linux on separately here is some questions that I have

1. I have seen an external hd that uses usb 2.0, can all comps use usb 2.0, mine is from 2000 and i dunno if i have 2.0 and how can I get it?

2. can I have more than one internal hd?

thx ppl :smilie4:

[kaiweiler]

1. no all comps do not have usb 2.0, but it has to be quite old not to...what is it called? or if you built it what is your motherboard called? and usb 2.0 is not just something you can get... its hardware not software. you can get a card that fits in a pci slot that has 2 usb 2.0 ports in it though
2. yes

[bulio]

my motherboard is an intel celeron from 2000

that help? :huh:

[kaiweiler]

hmm not specific enough...
just look on the back of your comp, do you have anything that looks remotly like this?
http://www.logitec.co.jp/closeup/2002/1001/image/img03.gif
it doesnt have to be in that spot, you just have to have that port

[scottwile]

if you computer came with a 20gb drive then it is quite likely it would have at least one usb port in it

[bulio]

looks like this (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2779015642&category=51118)

thats what my comp looks like, scroll down a bit to see larger photo

i have 2 usb ports, but i think their 1.0

[kaiweiler]

Yes that has usb 2.0 I am quite sure
just look ont he back for a port that looks like one in the pic i posted earlier

[bulio]

k thx

[kaiweiler]

do you have it??

[scottwile]

if you don't have one you could get something like this (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=www.usbgear.com/images/5-p-1-1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.usbgear.com/usa/usb-super-sale.html&h=338&w=390&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dusb%2B2.0%2Bport%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8). if you have the money and a free pci slot which you probably do. this is 30$ you can likely get a cheaper version if you computer doesn't have a 2.0 usb port

[Virtualbody1234]

You could just add another internal one. Save some money at the same time.

[kaiweiler]

That is if he doesn't have USB 2.0 anyway, he hasn't replied to confirm it yet...
but your right VB, it would

Kai

[bigdawgfoxx]

I would stick with internal...and isnt USB 2.0 pretty new?...not like new new...but only like 2 years old?

[kaiweiler]

its gotta be older then 2 years old, My old computer was a celeron 850 and was about 3 years old and had usb 2.0 ports
so its at least 3 years old

Kai

[cwctv]

This board doesn&#39;t have Usb2 not that Hp help what a shit site for finding anything out ALL this info will be in your manuals,Hp only give Seagate driver man&#39; <_<
I go along with people go Internal or buy a card.

[kaiweiler]

okay everyone, apparantly we helped him out and he&#39;s now figured it all out and it works, or so he says via his reply to my PM.
Good Luck&#33;

Kai