Okay, I've been doing my own crash course on hard disk installation during this week-end (since I can't access my computer on normal week-days) and this is basically what I've uncovered (courtesy of a certain David Risley [who knows, it might even be one of you guys!!] at hardwarecentral.com):
There 3 stages in preparing a hard disk for use:
(Low Level Formatting, done by manufacturers) -> File Sys setup/Partitioning (eg FAT32/NTFS/HPFS) -> High Level Formatting (aka DOS formatting)
And that there are 3 types of hard disk interfaces (threes, and threes, and trees... I'm getting a headache already ):
1. SCSI - It seems that these interfaces are damn complicated to configure (having a special end-device for the terminating device and whatnot) and, what's worse, there are no set standards for them at all -> thus different makes from different manufacturers may conflict with one another.
2. IDE - This seems to be the safer, but slower choice of many people.
3. EIDE - The Enhanced version of the above, but I'm not clear how much more enhanced it is ('...able to take advantage of the PCI interface from your new video card...' ?)
As usual, any comments/criticism about the info above is always welcome !
Do any of you have any informative, reliabe, and (most vital of all) frequently-updated sites about this (or any hardware-related) topic? What are the brands to look out for? I heard that Seagate, Toshiba and Maxtor are some of the more popular ones.
And before Moggl (or any other moderator of this board) boots me out for deviating too far from the subject at hand , I would be grateful to anybody who can provide me with this (game-related) info I mentioned in my opening message:
1. will I be able to play the other modules (eg Werewolf Island) from the ToTSC CD if I did not choose to have them installed? Is the Misc module crucial?
2. Exactly how much free hard disk space is needed to play the game? The 25++ MB I have doesn't seem to suffice.
3. Don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful to stred, slag-king (especially for taking the trouble to elaborate at such length and detail about FAT??, Win 95 et al) and the others who have responded. All of you are welcome to drop any suggestions you may have at my email address -> just click on my name! .
PS slag-king, I'm residing in SE Asia, so I don't think pricewatch.com or the other sites you've mentioned are that viable to me, what with the shipping costs and other hidden costs .
PPS Until this Fri/Sat, seeya at the board!
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