Hardware Not shure what to do with my old 250gb hdd

Deleted User · Sep 8, 2017

Several months ago before I built my new pc,I took apart my old one from 2009 with a sempron 140, m2n68-am plus motherboard and a GeForce 7025 built into its motherboard which has a seagate 250gb internal hdd.Now I used this computer back when I was a Internet novice and filled it with a bunch of viruses with windows xp so I was wondering if somehow I could mabe format the hdd and make use of it again.Mabe use it along side my 120gb ssd and 1tb hdd somehow or save it for something else that's useful.

raystriker · Sep 26, 2017

I say plug it into a linux machine, format it and put it to good use, you can never have enough storage.

gnmmarechal · Sep 26, 2017

Ominous66521 said:
Several months ago before I built my new pc,I took apart my old one from 2009 with a sempron 140, m2n68-am plus motherboard and a GeForce 7025 built into its motherboard which has a seagate 250gb internal hdd.Now I used this computer back when I was a Internet novice and filled it with a bunch of viruses with windows xp so I was wondering if somehow I could mabe format the hdd and make use of it again.Mabe use it along side my 120gb ssd and 1tb hdd somehow or save it for something else that's useful.

You can plug it into your new PC and use it as extra storage, I suppose.

Touko White · Sep 26, 2017

You could buy a sata>usb adaptor like i have done so.

slaphappygamer · Sep 26, 2017

Use it for only pictures?

DarkFlare69 · Sep 26, 2017

I have a 500GB SSD as boot, a 1TB HDD for games, another 1TB HDD for backups, and a 250GB HDD for quick access stuff, like projects I'm working on, and don't want to keep navigating into folders every time I want to open something. If you work on anything that requires opening files a lot, this may be useful

Stephano · Sep 26, 2017

This might be a little late but i would highly suggest putting it in a PS2 or an original Xbox if you have one. You can store quite a lot of games on them with that. Of course you would already need both of them softmodded

and actually have the console.

Psionic Roshambo · Sep 26, 2017

If you want it in your new PC safely...

1. Boot your machine into BIOS or UFEI what ever it is called, make sure you have it set to boot from CD/DVD/USB your choice.
2. Download some sort of Linux Live distro again CD/DVD/USB, and burn or make it bootable.
3. Install hard drive on your new machine.
4. Boot your Linux.
5. Look for Gparted in the menu and use it to blow out all those nasty virus's.
6. Take out your boot media and reboot into Windows and enjoy 250GB's of storage for use when your OS fucks up and you need to reinstall, you get to keep your 250GB's of stuff

(as long as you don't accidentally install Windows on it.)

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Stephano said:
This might be a little late but i would highly suggest putting it in a PS2 or an original Xbox if you have one. You can store quite a lot of games on them with that. Of course you would already need both of them softmodded and actually have the console.

Depends on if it's a SATA drive, or IDE. On the PS2 you could buy a SATA "network" adapter. but the actual Network adapters are IDE.

migles · Sep 26, 2017

Ominous66521 said:
.Now I used this computer back when I was a Internet novice and filled it with a bunch of viruses with windows xp

just plug it in with windows 10 or a windows 8 with the auto play shit disabled and a good recent AV
unless you have some really rare virus or fbi style stuff, it will not be a problem with a new updated OS and updated av..

if you want to be cautious, yeah you can boot a live linux distro and copy out the stuff you cared about like old photos, savees, make a list old old software that was usefull for you, etc. and format it...

as for an use..
pick your poison:
buy a cheap usb enclosure so you can use it as an external drive, to use with a console or maybe a modern tv to play movies..
darflare gave a good idea, use it as a drive for projects or easy access
use it as backup drive... (it can't hurt have like 3 copies in different drives of stuff you really care about)

The Real Jdbye · Sep 26, 2017

Psionic Roshambo said:
If you want it in your new PC safely...

1. Boot your machine into BIOS or UFEI what ever it is called, make sure you have it set to boot from CD/DVD/USB your choice.
2. Download some sort of Linux Live distro again CD/DVD/USB, and burn or make it bootable.
3. Install hard drive on your new machine.
4. Boot your Linux.
5. Look for Gparted in the menu and use it to blow out all those nasty virus's.
6. Take out your boot media and reboot into Windows and enjoy 250GB's of storage for use when your OS fucks up and you need to reinstall, you get to keep your 250GB's of stuff (as long as you don't accidentally install Windows on it.)

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Depends on if it's a SATA drive, or IDE. On the PS2 you could buy a SATA "network" adapter. but the actual Network adapters are IDE.

I believe there are IDE->SATA adapters that will work with the PS2 network adapter though.

Ominous66521 said:
Several months ago before I built my new pc,I took apart my old one from 2009 with a sempron 140, m2n68-am plus motherboard and a GeForce 7025 built into its motherboard which has a seagate 250gb internal hdd.Now I used this computer back when I was a Internet novice and filled it with a bunch of viruses with windows xp so I was wondering if somehow I could mabe format the hdd and make use of it again.Mabe use it along side my 120gb ssd and 1tb hdd somehow or save it for something else that's useful.

If it was 2.5" I probably would have used it for a USB HDD, those always come in handy. But 3.5" drives are more hassle since they require an external power supply. It's also too small to really be useful for much, I guess you could use it as an external HDD for backup if you don't have too much stuff you'd want to back up.

Psionic Roshambo · Sep 26, 2017

The Real Jdbye said:
I believe there are IDE->SATA adapters that will work with the PS2 network adapter though.

Maybe but then the issue becomes trying to figure out how to fit it into the PS2 if your using a phat PS2 and Network adapter they pretty much take up 100% of the room in the machine. (I guess if your brave enough you can take apart the network adapter and do stuff to it... but mine are all pristine lol

The Real Jdbye · Sep 26, 2017

Psionic Roshambo said:
Maybe but then the issue becomes trying to figure out how to fit it into the PS2 if your using a phat PS2 and Network adapter they pretty much take up 100% of the room in the machine. (I guess if your brave enough you can take apart the network adapter and do stuff to it... but mine are all pristine lol

Yeah, I think it requires taking it apart.

kumikochan · Sep 26, 2017

Stephano said:
This might be a little late but i would highly suggest putting it in a PS2 or an original Xbox if you have one. You can store quite a lot of games on them with that. Of course you would already need both of them softmodded and actually have the console.

agreed

_v3 · Sep 26, 2017

Buy a hard drive enclosure, download freefilesync and setup the program so that whenever you connect the hard drive it does a backup of your most important files.

kumikochan · Sep 26, 2017

Psionic Roshambo said:
Maybe but then the issue becomes trying to figure out how to fit it into the PS2 if your using a phat PS2 and Network adapter they pretty much take up 100% of the room in the machine. (I guess if your brave enough you can take apart the network adapter and do stuff to it... but mine are all pristine lol

There is a chinese sata network adapter clone and it's just plug and play. Doesn't take any extra work

Psionic Roshambo · Sep 26, 2017

kumikochan said:
There is a chinese sata network adapter clone and it's just plug and play. Doesn't take any extra work

I mentioned that "Network" adapter a couple of posts up, the "Network" part of it doesn't actually work. That makes transfering games over the network from your PC a pain in the butt. My drive no longer functions in any of my 3 PS2's so I use that feature to transfer games to the PS2's hard drive. Or at least I used too, now I just emulate the PS2 and game stream...

kumikochan · Sep 26, 2017

Psionic Roshambo said:
I mentioned that "Network" adapter a couple of posts up, the "Network" part of it doesn't actually work. That makes transfering games over the network from your PC a pain in the butt. My drive no longer functions in any of my 3 PS2's so I use that feature to transfer games to the PS2's hard drive. Or at least I used too, now I just emulate the PS2 and game stream...

but why not just simply plug it in 2 a pc to transfer games. Don't get why you'd want to do it over the network while that is so much slower.

Psionic Roshambo · Sep 26, 2017

kumikochan said:
but why not just simply plug it in 2 a pc to transfer games. Don't get why you'd want to do it over the network while that is so much slower.

Honestly it seems like it would be faster but it's not a whole lot faster the difference is easily eaten up by messing with taking things apart locating adapters for my PC (I have no IDE ports in my PCs lol too new)

So instead if I needed to send over a game it's like 10 minutes tops for a medium sized game lol

Edit: ooorrr just fire up my shield tv and stream PCSX2 and enjoy it in HD glory.

kumikochan · Sep 26, 2017

Psionic Roshambo said:
Honestly it seems like it would be faster but it's not a whole lot faster the difference is easily eaten up by messing with taking things apart locating adapters for my PC (I have no IDE ports in my PCs lol too new)

So instead if I needed to send over a game it's like 10 minutes tops for a medium sized game lol

Edit: ooorrr just fire up my shield tv and stream PCSX2 and enjoy it in HD glory.

But the clone adapters are SATA so you don't even need IDE and you can easily use a sata to usb adapter to connect it.

Psionic Roshambo · Sep 26, 2017

kumikochan said:
But the clone adapters are SATA so you don't even need IDE and you can easily use a sata to usb adapter to connect it.

If I had one of those that would be the only option in my case lol

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