Old HDD with Vista

[_FAKE_]

So, not so long ago i bought myself a 250GB HDD and installed Vista Ultimate onto it. A month later my 250GB HDD died, kept getting constant BSOD. I sort of figured it was my HDD because i uninstalled Vista and went to install XP Pro, but couldn't without getting BSOD. So I tried my mums 40GB HDD and it worked fine.

Question: So today I just bought a 320GB HDD and want to install Vista again. Now my 250GB HDD isn't exactly dead, and I don't want to chuck it away, so i was wondering if it where possible to use it as a secondary drive without getting a BSOD, since my main OS will be on the 320GB.

Please post soon.

[BaYegu]

Well, would you trust in data storage that 'isn't exactly dead'?

Yeah, we all do. Possibly you could use the old drive as a cache for indifferent and unimportant stuff and pieces, but I'd give it a rough test in the Linux environment to check out if the drive really has problems or are they just from the bloody awful operating system it's forced to run on.

[_FAKE_]

Never tried linux. But the funny thing is, is that the HDD work's fine, i can install stuff on it etc it just has a habbit of crashing every now and than. Usually like evry 3rd day it would just die, and i have to start up in safe mode., anyways, ill give it a go, see what happens.

EDIT: When i mean crashing, I mean the HDD will spin and read/write normally. Than it would sound like its struggling, than it would go quite and stop working. Similar to a DVD/CD drive when its not working properly

[Zaynee]

Hmm, I don't think I'd trust a drive doing that at all. If you haven't bought it too long ago, there should still be a warranty on it. Why don't you send it back to the manufacture so you don't have to go through the problems? At least that's what I'd do...

[DrFenerbache]

Hmm, I don't think I'd trust a drive doing that at all. If you haven't bought it too long ago, there should still be a warranty on it. Why don't you send it back to the manufacture so you don't have to go through the problems? At least that's what I'd do...

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