O'kay guys, so how does one go about adding a second hard drive to their system?

I'm currently running a 30 gig Toshiba drive (don't laugh, it's small, I know) and I'd like to add a second 30 gig to it to boost my drive capacity to 60 gigs so that it will run better and that I'll be able to load a photo program on it without locking the system up (I've got people waiting on photos that I took with the digicam, but can't EM them to 'em because I can't run the program with my current OS, let alone even download the pics), but I've no idea of what to tell the system to do to do it..., any help?

 

Here is a pretty good guide I've found...check it out.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1778

 

Why only get another 30? They're making drives in excess of 200 gigs nowadays. Shop around... I picked up my 160 gig Maxtor for $40 after rebates.

But that's a good guide Data linked to. I find most of the information on PCStats website to be very useful.

 

Thanks much for that link data, I appreciate it.
It will give me an hour or less of a project and help me to make better use of my system and the 768 mb's of ram for a change.

Now if I could only get some help/ideas/know how of how to disable (I know that it would need to be done "physically") the ICMP "ping" responder, I should be good to go..., for now anyway.

 

I'm having to sink available finances into other things at the moment and happen to have the 30 gig sitting around..., man, if I could have a "terawatt/quat" (I think that's how it's said ) capacity system I would!

 

most new routers give you the ability to disable response on port 113, if you are already using a router, take a look in the security settings for that option, if you don't, i'd pick one up for wireless needs with that laptop anyway. good luck

 

Oh the humiliation.

 

What OS are you running? Do you even have a hardware router/firewall?

 

Thanks to a really nasty visit by a certain infamous worm, I'm currently forced to fall back onto my base "ME" OS and , yes, I do have a "hardware router/firewall" (now), but that does'nt seem to stop the "ping" responder as it's able to be read by certain online scanners.

 

what make/model is the router? I'll see if i can spot the setting for ya?