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Ok here's the deal:
1st all new harddrives are plug and play. You can swap your old hardrive to your new computer no problem. All harddrives use an ide cable so make sure you have the #1 usually the red wire in the ide (gray) cable, with the #1 pin on your motherboard. Most new ide cables are keyed so they only go on one way. Also you should go into the system bios and input the exact sectors, cylinders,etc the harddrive has. Your bios might not be setup to auto configure your harddrive. Also you don't need 256mb of memory for a new harddrive even though 256mb is like 80$ now why not buy it. Buy a barebones sytem off ebay and throw your harddrive in it. I bought one 4 years ago it came with :
motherboard,case,300w powersupply,agp 3d ati rage graphics card for only $199. I had no problems at all with it.
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