[Coco] Drivewire run on Windows 2000? was :Drivewire vs. Win2k

[Steve Bjork]

Bill,
Over at NewEgg.com, you can get Seagate 80 GB ATA IDE hard drive for 
only $36.99.  (Cheaper if SATA.)
An even better deal is a full 1TB Seagate is going for $84.00 with free 
shipping!

That's 80 GB hardware is 20 times the room you will need for XP setup.  
Also, you don't want to be using a drive that is over 5 years old.  
Drives do have a limit life and will start to give up at some point.  
While SpinRite can extend the life of a drive, don't count on more than 
another year or two at best. I've been using hard drives since my CoCo 
days and trust me, you never want a drive to die and lose all your data 
on it.  Backups help, but you never get everything back.

With a larger drive you can create many partitions for backups and other 
operating systems.

Memory is cheap right now and I would run a minimum of 512 MB of RAM on 
a XP system.  (A full 1GB if you are using integrated graphics on the 
motherboard.)
But the longer you wait to upgrade the memory on a older system the more 
the memory will cost.  I've seen  PC 3200 speed memory jump about 25% in 
the last 6 months.
 
It's time to use a crowbar and open up that wallet before it really 
costs you.

Bill wrote:
> Does DriveWire do O.K. with Windows 2K? This Win98 system I have is not
> acting right on the network, and I just as soon upgrade to Win2K. (Drive
> isn't big enough for XP