https://dfarq.homeip.net/windows-2000-in-32-megs-of-ram/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=windows-2000-in-32-megs-of-ram David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:33:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://dfarq.homeip.net/windows-2000-in-32-megs-of-ram/#comment-5552 Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:22:22 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1510#comment-5552 Reminds me of last year when I upgraded a blogging friend’s old Dell system (salvaged from an employer) where she was running WinXP on 32 meg of ram and only 1 or 2 gigabytes of disk. I upgraded the BIOS to support larger hard drives and installed the 10 gig drive and 128 meg of ram salvaged from an old Pentium III 500 MHz system a few years ago. I imaged everything from the old disk drive using the free Seagate utilities. It took about four hours total, and most of that time was copying the drive. She couldn’t believe how fast that old (really old) Dell system ran with more memory. Plus, the new disk’s IDE controller was significantly better than the old one. I hate throwing out old technology just because I can’t use it anymore. There’s always someone who can benefit from it.

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