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Looking for suggestions on new hard drive that will run WIN 98 with XP upgrade

phinsfan

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Looking for suggestions on a new hard drive that will run WIN 98 with XP upgrade, updating daughters old PC and the old hard drive is IDE ( Seagate U series 5, 40 GB) new motherboard is SATA tried the adapters and it won't boot the old hard drive.
Just looking to replace it. Will any hard drive work ?
was looking at the following but not telling me much.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1102922&CatId=2458

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7850876&CatId=139

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1083959&CatId=2459

any help is truly appreciated Thanks
 


Thanks, that's what I thought and then I started seeing stuff about be compatible with different OS and I got really confused :??: I replaced HD years ago but never ran into that.

Thanks again
 

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