10-04-2008, 09:40 PM
Sorry. If I knew that you didn't care about the data, I would have just told you to erase it.
I'd install an OS on that drive or clone my boot volume to it. I always keep at least one spare boot volume in my towers as a just-in-case.
My spare drives seldom remain spare for long unless they don't have sufficient capacity for today's demands.
For example, I have an old 300GB drive currently being used to store my old audio tapes as I rip them.
A 120GB was recently repurposed as an alternate boot volume when I wanted to play with Linux as a server-platform.
I just put an old 60Gb in a tower at my parents' house for automated backups of my mom's laptop.
I'd install an OS on that drive or clone my boot volume to it. I always keep at least one spare boot volume in my towers as a just-in-case.
My spare drives seldom remain spare for long unless they don't have sufficient capacity for today's demands.
For example, I have an old 300GB drive currently being used to store my old audio tapes as I rip them.
A 120GB was recently repurposed as an alternate boot volume when I wanted to play with Linux as a server-platform.
I just put an old 60Gb in a tower at my parents' house for automated backups of my mom's laptop.