Q: I have 4 or 5 old computer hard drives that are still in good working condition and I would rather utilize them instead of throwing them away. They range in size from 100GB to 500GB.
A: Install your drives in an old computer, so the system has 3 hard drives plus a CD ROM Drive. Install Windows XP Pro on a 1.5 GB partition on the primary master hard drive. Once XP is installed remove the CD ROM Drive and install another hard drive in it's place. In windows XP go into the storage manager and make the other drives and remaining space on your system disk into one big dynamic disk. Share this drive on your local network. That's it, now you have a server on your network with a big old storage space for you backups or whatever.