W3WN
12-26-2010, 05:31 PM
OK, here's one I haven't run into for quite awhile...
When my firm upgraded to Dell machines almost 2 years ago, I bought 3 of the old Compaq EVO D300V mini-towers for home use. All three came with 20 GB hard drives.
Upgraded 2 of the 3 to 80 GB drives... only 2 since that was all I had at the time. Used the third one as the boss's computer, since all she ever does with it is read email, surf the 'net, and play solitaire. (It was also a lateral upgrade, in terms of drive space, from her old Gateway tower)
Of course, once she got a better machine, more crap got put on it. Suffice to say, we're down to 1 GB free. So, got my hands on another 80 GB drive and Ghosted it last night.
Only the machine won't boot off of the new drive. Yes, it's jumpered as a Master! But it starts to boot, gets about 20 seconds into loading XP, and reboots.
So I grabbed another drive I had sitting around, a 60 GB one out of my sister-in-law's old tower. Same thing.
Should mention that the BIOS gave a warning (when booting off floppy into Ghost) that neither drive was "ATA compatible" -- even though both are pulls out of existing machines.
I'm suspecting, since it did this with two different drives, both pulls from known working machines, that it's something on the machine, not the drive. Any thoughts?
In the meantime, my daughter just got K3AIR's old laptop, so her Dell is now destined to replace the EVO that's the shack computer, and THAT EVO will end up with the wife. Keeps the peace, if nothing else.
Any thoughts?
When my firm upgraded to Dell machines almost 2 years ago, I bought 3 of the old Compaq EVO D300V mini-towers for home use. All three came with 20 GB hard drives.
Upgraded 2 of the 3 to 80 GB drives... only 2 since that was all I had at the time. Used the third one as the boss's computer, since all she ever does with it is read email, surf the 'net, and play solitaire. (It was also a lateral upgrade, in terms of drive space, from her old Gateway tower)
Of course, once she got a better machine, more crap got put on it. Suffice to say, we're down to 1 GB free. So, got my hands on another 80 GB drive and Ghosted it last night.
Only the machine won't boot off of the new drive. Yes, it's jumpered as a Master! But it starts to boot, gets about 20 seconds into loading XP, and reboots.
So I grabbed another drive I had sitting around, a 60 GB one out of my sister-in-law's old tower. Same thing.
Should mention that the BIOS gave a warning (when booting off floppy into Ghost) that neither drive was "ATA compatible" -- even though both are pulls out of existing machines.
I'm suspecting, since it did this with two different drives, both pulls from known working machines, that it's something on the machine, not the drive. Any thoughts?
In the meantime, my daughter just got K3AIR's old laptop, so her Dell is now destined to replace the EVO that's the shack computer, and THAT EVO will end up with the wife. Keeps the peace, if nothing else.
Any thoughts?