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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5687)	1/30/1999 9:33:00 AM
From: Steven Bowen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

"In general the more proprietary a machine is the more difficult it is to change an original configuration." OK, thanks guys. Then just back to my original plan of just adding another hard drive to meet my immediate requirements. Couple (more) questions then; You mentioned my system (2 1/2 year old Pentium 166MHz) probably wouldn't recognize more than a 8 Gig hard drive. This is per drive??? ie if I keep my current 1.6G and add a 8.4G, then 1.6 and 8.0 will be recognized? My current 1.6G is a Maxtor. Are there advantages to keeping my additional drive a Maxtor also, or are IBM's, Western Digital, et al, just as compatible? Will it make any (much) difference which drive I use as master and which is slave, which I keep Win95 on and boot from, or should I just keep everything as it is on my 1.6G and add a new drive as the slave and just use it for the additional storage? I assume I still need to change the jumpers on my 1.6G to allow a slave? Thanks for your help, Steve PS Looks to me like Comp-U-Plus generally has the best prices around (including buycomp.com and TJT). Anyone with experience with them?