Can I use my friend's hard drive?

Hi all

My hard drive no longer works, and until I bought a new, a friend gave me his. But we do not know if it is compatible. Here's what he said:

My motherboard is a socket 478, taking a Pentium 4 processor. My hard drive is actually 160 GB with an 8meg cache. The hard drive is not a design 24pin after all. It is also a Seagate, but it is just the brand name. Perhaps the only way to know for sure is for you to try to install it. If the pins match, in all probability, that you can use. It is difficult to guess what your system is the list of specifications that some of it is corrupted. Let me know.

If please notify and let me know if you need more information. I am very ignorant on the material.


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