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| Thread ID: 30755 | 2003-03-02 03:25:00 | Fighting Hard Disks | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
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| 124971 | 2003-03-02 03:25:00 | Where do I start with this one? Well, my faithful old Pentium 166 has finally died after being terminally Ill for a year or so . (Heating the bios chip with wife’s hair dryer will no longer fire it up) No worries thinks I . As I have the prodigal son’s old 233 (He’s on the big OE) I’ll simply pull the hard drive out of mine and run it as a slave in his . So, managed to physically install hard drive, removed the master jumper (on mine), and set the CMOS setup . Even installed additional 128 meg of RAM from my machine (organ transplant) Powered up and for a start everything looked honky dory . However, it wasn’t long before reality set in . First I can’t find my address book . Then MS Office has reverted to default settings and so on and on and on! That’s running from the Sons machine without touching anything . Now, a major problem is that the existing hard drive was partitioned into C & D . The addition of a physical drive has moved D out to E and has taken over D’s position . Now as you can imagine this has caused no small amount of chaos . Naturally there is the operating system (win 98) on the added hard drive also . Hmmm . Question is, How can I overcome this problem? I’d like to be able to recover my hard drive at a later date (complete with information) and install it in another machine . Also, I don’t want to completely stuff the Son’s machine . Or have I already done that? Mr Norton reports numerous (114) errors but I suspect that is because of the BIOS popping the new drive into the C position . The previous address of the installed drive was naturally C and it is now E so that is not helping . Any help appreciated and indeed needed! :8} After thought: Would duel booting get around the problem?????? |
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| 124972 | 2003-03-02 03:30:00 | Whoops, The previous address of the installed drive was naturally C and it is now E so that is not helping. Should read: The previous address of the installed drive was naturally C and it is now "D" so that is not helping. |
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| 124973 | 2003-03-02 05:50:00 | as long as you havn't tried to repair anything i would remove your drive, install letter assigner, asign the drives then add your drive back in. this way you will get sons c and d drives and your drive will be e. you can then recover any info off e. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 124974 | 2003-03-02 07:12:00 | Sorry tweak but I don’t understand . Is letter assigner a software programme that I have to obtain? When you say remove the drive, could that be done in the Bios setup? Just thinking that if I hadn’t told the Bios I’d added a hard-drive it probably wouldn’t have noticed? Just getting a bit out of my depth . No I won’t try to repair anything until a gain a bit more confidence . Cheers Bob |
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| 124975 | 2003-03-02 07:22:00 | I would set your HD as the primary master and leave his off and all should work ok and his can be easily restored when he gets back. You would probably need a few new drivers because of the different hardware. When you are running OE etc it will be getting your sons settings off the C: drive. |
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| 124976 | 2003-03-02 08:08:00 | yes letter assigner is a program which assigns letters to the drives so the order dosn't get mixed up. look here (www.v72735.f2s.com) remove the drive- just unplug the ide cable. it only needs to be off temporary. >I would set your HD as the primary master not a good idea for newbies. you would have to clean out all the old drivers and install all the new ones. theres a good possiblity of a complete stuff up. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 124977 | 2003-03-02 08:49:00 | Thanks for that tweak & mike . I’ve downloaded that programme tweak and I’ll have a bit of a look tomorrow . (After a night’s sleep and a wee think) . One problem is easy overcome and that is drive E ex D . Looking at what’s on it using Explorer I find it is all Mp3 music files . Obviously set aside so if he had to format C the music files would be safe on D . Now, I’m quite happy booting up into his operating system (Their both 98se) but I would like my favourites, address book, and access to the applications on my hard disk and not on his . Incidentally, I have all the original application disks so I can reinstall those if need be but I’d rather not loose letters etc . |
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