Silvio Manuel Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 A friend of mine is planning on re-installing her O/S. I don't have experience with this but I'm hoping that you might kindly be able to help us out: "Need to install a clean version of XP SP2 on my home machine. Which makes more sense to you – getting an external HD to back up the internal, or just getting a new internal HD and getting an external enclosure for the one I already have." Thanks! -SM 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnergoz Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 I'd go with putting the new drive in to replace the old internal drive, and placing the latter into an enclosure as an external. You want fastest possible access to your primary drive and the internal is the way to achieve that. The external, older, drive can be accessed for its data more slowly without affecting overall PC functionality. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 If there's space in the case just bung in an extra HD to do the fresh OS install on and use the old HD as an internal back up, unless she needs the portability. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnergoz Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Just be sure that your PC's power supply can handle a second hard drive without too much load or heat buildup. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Manuel Posted February 27, 2009 Author Share Posted February 27, 2009 Thank you all~ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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