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28 minutes ago, Alexbox said:

How? (more specifically, where to get one?)

Buy literally any SATA hard drive, a startech IDE2SAT adapter, and an 80-wire 40-pin ide cable. That’s what’s required. The cheap adapters work too but they’re a bit harder to start with and occasionally nuke your drive because the QC on them sucks  

How you do it depends on whether you use a softmod or a TSOP/Chip to boot a modified bios. 

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How your system is setup will dictate how you setup your larger hdd.

if you have a hard mod you can just drop in the larger hdd and just build it with hexen and there is no need to lock the drive. 

With a soft mod you will need to use something like chimp and remember to lock the drive.

if you want a really large drive it will have to be a sata drive but there’s no point getting anything bigger than a 2tb.

if you want anything up to about 750gb you should still be able to find a pata drive.

the advantage of pata is boot time, the disadvantage is they are getting old and cronky.

 

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