I used this hard drive in my desktop I've had for 10 years. I just took it out and formatted it for HDLoader. It's not bad. I use the same IDE cable for my disc drive that works fine so it's not the cable.
It should be pretty fast. Only time transfers are slow that I remember was using the network cable transfer program.
not been funny mate but you have had 10 years out of the drive, thats very good for a HDD personally i would buy a new HDD, you will find with alot of HDD errors they work perfectly fine in 1 environment (your old PC for example) but when moved and formatted etc they begin to show their problems, this is 99% what has happened to your drive i used to use old IDE HDD's in the original Xbox, most of the time the drives were out of PC's which had read errors etc. but worked perfect on the xbox, it was a risk but probably encountered 1 in 10 HDD's that couldn't be re-used in this fashion
Does that explain why all the hdd's in the xboxes i had off you dont work? lol (disclaimer: I bought a bunch of faulty stuff from him, he wasn't scamming me etc!)
+1 :lol: :thumbsup: Now a comment of mine ... While it might seem a waste toss an apparently working HDD out it's not really worth the headache of trusting data to the said HDD only to have it "go on strike" and leave you without the data. HDD is a critical part of any computer device which needs mass storage. So gimping on that is totally not worth it. :nod:
I find WinHIIP transfers at somewhere between 20-30mb/s (megabytes) if everything is functioning just fine. I've also popped "dying" Maxtors (yes, Maxtors and only Maxtors) into XBoxes and PS2s only to find them living a nice long life without a hiccup when formerly they'd perform a single loud CLICK and Windows would freeze. Its like playing a game of Russian Roulette where you put bullets in every chamber. Everyone is a winner!
