Looking for a spare (cheap/free) 4GB+ IDE Drive

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Dan Falconer

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Dec 17, 2009, 10:14:32 AM12/17/09
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All,

I am looking for an old IDE hard drive, if one of you have one laying around that isn't going to be used.  I'm even willing to pay a couple of bucks for it. :)

My Christmas present to my (much) younger brother is to replace his current computer (HP 233Mhz running Win98+) with a new one that I've been building out of spare parts.  Last night I managed to mirror their hard drive onto an external USB drive, after finding that the 20GB drive I had installed in the replacement machine was bad.  The idea was to have Ubuntu 8.10 on it with a VM running the copy of their Win98+ drive.

Any drive >= 4GB is required: this would at least allow me to mirror their old drive onto it.  Anything with adequate space to hold Ubuntu along with the 4GB image would be preferrable, as I think he'd enjoy a Linux system much more.

Thanks for your help!

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Dan Falconer
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Dave McCarty

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Dec 17, 2009, 10:36:07 AM12/17/09
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What size do you need I have several looking for a home?
Dave

Dave McCarty

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Dec 17, 2009, 10:37:29 AM12/17/09
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Should have read further. I will check my inventory and let you know
what's available later to day.

Dave
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Dan Falconer

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Dec 17, 2009, 10:43:43 AM12/17/09
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Dave,

You may just save Christmas!

Dan Falconer

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Dec 17, 2009, 2:02:18 PM12/17/09
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Dave,

It seems that Jon will be able to hook me up with a spare that he has.  Thanks anyway, and have a merry Christmas!

Jeff Miller

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Dec 17, 2009, 2:42:23 PM12/17/09
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I think I've got an 8 gig sitting at home, so you can have that as well.  I just need to wipe it.

Jeff

Dave McCarty

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Dec 17, 2009, 5:40:58 PM12/17/09
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I have a 20 gb maxtor available if you need it. I like Xubuntu for older
processors it is designed to run with fewer resources.
Let me know if you want it. I already started running Dban on it before
I checked your e-mail so it is ready to go if you or someone else needs
it.
Merry Christmas

Dave

Dan Falconer

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Dec 17, 2009, 7:08:27 PM12/17/09
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Thanks to everyone.  Jon already hooked me up.  Merry Christmas!

Dan Falconer

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Dec 31, 2009, 11:04:50 AM12/31/09
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If any of you are interested in the details of the Christmas present for which this thread was started, you can read about it on my website:

http://www.crazedsanity.com/blog/slaughter/a_physically_virtual_christmas

Dwight Comfort

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Dec 31, 2009, 3:26:30 PM12/31/09
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Thanks Dan,
Neat story!

Dwight

From: Dan Falconer <dan.fa...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Thu, December 31, 2009 10:04:50 AM
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