First post, by Tetrium
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Is this possible?
So this is my situation: My old backupcomputer is non-functional right now and I'm planning on rebuilding it.
The problem is that the original motherboard will have a hard time with SATA-3 drives (this I presume, I had to jump through some loops to let the SATA-1 controller see the old SATA-2 drive).
I used a 1TB drive for my old data and at the same time have XP installed on it for use as a slipstreaming rig (using virtual pc), but all my data was crumming the old drive, so I bought a 2TB one. Only problem is, when doing my research (I know, I should've done my research before buying the drive 🤣 ) I found out XP seems to have a helluva time to install on anything that is 2TB or larger.
I really want to use XP instead of 7 as I need compatibility with nlite, a couple other programs (this rig I use to store drivers for all my retro hardware) and XP seems to be the last OS that supports my 2.88MB floppy drive (using an old copy of winimage). Also the rig (which is basically my mothers old computer which I will be giving a facelift) has only 2GB available, which I feel is a little bit little for Windows 7 and DDR2 is a bit expensive compared to DDR3
I know this rig is fairly modern, but my primary targets are to store all of my offline data and to be as compatible as a base rig for software for all of my retro rigs so I figured I'd ask here 😀
Does anyone have a golden tip for me? Or should I just get 2 1TB drives and save myself a lot of pain 🤣 ?
Feel free to chip in with any info or opinions you might have 😁