“500Gb Pata IDE hard drive availability I'd like to get a new 3.5 500gb pata ide hard drive for my xp computer. Don't laugh, I do have a Win7 laptop, but a lot of my XP software either doesn't work or works poorly under Win7. Know that MS is killing their XP support in April, so I want a clean hard drive with all the latest XP upgrades before the support goes away. Much cheaper than buying all the new software to run on Win7, and don't even think about suggesting Win8. Have yet to find a single person with a laptop that cares for it.”
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You're better off to buy a laptop/desktop with win 7 on it so you get support and alot of software runs perfect in win 7
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The old hard drive on my original machine begin to hang up and give me problems and I liked Windows XP. The original hard drive was 250 GB. The new installed 500 GB hard drive is working fine now and I'm still using Windows XP.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.You can certainly do that with ease; however, I would question your decision to keep running XP. If cost is an issue, you might want to switch to Ubuntu. It doesn't work perfectly with every single program but it's free, and I'd suspect that if you are using XP vintage programs Ubuntu would be compatible.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Seagate or WD are both good drives.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I bought the Seagate 500gb for use with win 7 and works great! Hard a copy on Win 7 so only cost was HD which was very reasonable. Go get it and update asap
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Have had one for a few months after my old one died. Seems to work good. Quiet. I grew up in Columbus, oh. Was just back for three weeks this last summer.
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