HDD died in my 560X, need to create new image, 18GB OK?

[Leagle]

Ah well, it had to happen - the original 4 GB IBM HDD in my Jan 1998 vintage 560X has become unusable.

Luckily I have an unused Bill Morrow -supplied Toshiba 18GB unit lying around that - so far - is unused.

How easy will it be for me it to use that instead?

[I am not all that happy simply to consign the 560X to the junk-heap, the rest of it works OK].

Somewhere I even have the original IBM recovery CD-ROM (as well as an IBM external CD drive).

Would I be better off looking to use something else, e.g. a different OS (either different Win version or even experiment with Linux?) from the Win98 that came originally?

[gadiyar]

Hi,
My 560X 4GB HDD died last week. Would like to know how successful you were with the replacement. Did you run into any upper bounds on the usable area?
Hope you didn't. I'm a poor student and I'm kind of attatched to this machine. (It's lovable, isn't it?)


Regards,
Anand Gadiyar

[Leagle]

I received no other replies since my original post - so have not yet tried the HDD transplant.

(I am using an A21 in the meantime - also with a Morrow-supplied disk!)

Tony