Ooooh ive never seen slickdeals before, this could get dangerous! Well, I shall keep my eyes open for an IDE hard drive. When I find one, shall I inquire again?

Dan handles the computer hardware stuff, but I can at least answer this part: That drive was actually purchased at the Staples in Mundelein. Part of the trick is to keep an eye on sites like Slickdeals for good deals, but these days the prices tend to stay pretty low anyway.

1.3 ghz generic store built system. haven’t gotten the new drive yet, im lookin around but i saw what you paid for yours and that looks damn intriguing… did you have to purchase it online or was that the price it was in the store? tigerdirect had a 120gb for $70… thanks!

That should be pretty easy to do, what are the specs to your current computer and have you gotten the new hard drive yet?

I need to get a new hard drive installed in my aging computer as I have like 10 gb of mp3’s and information and both my 20gb hard drives are just about full. Would you be interested in helping a pup out with installing the hard drive? In payment I can offer copies of the 10gb of mp3’s I have, in case there are some you dont have…

If the drive’s readable, you can make an image, and copy it to the new drive. If the OS is screwed up, it might not boot afterwards though, and you’d have to start fresh.

I’ve got it at home, on one of the low-memory WRT45G’s, and it works very nicely, well, after I upgraded the version from the unstable one a friend had flashed on it before giving it to me.

It’s good to hear the info on the TiVo…I have two that have dodgy hard drives.