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classcams said:
Oh by the way, I purchased a factory fresh 500gb hard drive. It now is up and running.
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I would be too if I was a hard drive in your house :lol::lol::lol:
 
It's such a relief.

It would have been easier to delete all existing partitions and recreate one single one then format it. You could have saved having to purchase a new drive but that would only have happened if you had not been silly earlier.
 
3.11 on 50 floppies, nah more like 10, i've still got a copy of 3.11 on 10 floppies plus DOS 6.2 on 3 disks.

my earliest foray into repairing a building systems was when you had to set the CPU multiplier and FSB manualy using jumpers and dip switches on the motherboard and get the AT Power plugs P8 - P9 the right way round black wires to the middle IIRC

Nowdays the BIOS sets the board up automatically and with ATX it is wired and keyed in a way that you can't plug it in backwards
 
What about office 4.3 on was it 32 or 42 floppies now that was a fun install. I think it was only a few month ago I chucked them.

How lucky am I that I can take a used hard drive and get it to work, god help him if it had been an IDE drive and he had needed to set jumpers for master or slave, SATA takes all that out of it for you. What ever you do don't look in to getting scsi.
 
Little John said:
What about office 4.3 on was it 32 or 42 floppies now that was a fun install. I think it was only a few month ago I chucked them.

How lucky am I that I can take a used hard drive and get it to work, god help him if it had been an IDE drive and he had needed to set jumpers for master or slave, SATA takes all that out of it for you. What ever you do don't look in to getting scsi.
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I remember my first Atari ST drive, It came in a box the size of a desktop PC case, cost £450 and the box contained..... DMA to SCSI card, SCSI - ST506 controller, 30Mb ST506 drive (RLL or was it RRL) plus a PSU and fan. It sounded like concord taking off and when I turned up at the computer club I had a crowd round the table standing in amazement. I saved up for a year and added birthday and christmas presents. I rang the chap up who was advertising in the ST user mag as I had enough for the 20Mb version (the 30Mb was about £520) and he said come down today and pay cash and I will give you a 30Mb one. I could get 9,000,000Mb for that money now.

Oh and SCSI is great :)
 
cowasaki said:
It's such a relief.

It would have been easier to delete all existing partitions and recreate one single one then format it. You could have saved having to purchase a new drive but that would only have happened if you had not been silly earlier.
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What does it matter when one is loaded with money. Don`t like the look of that PC, just throw it on the trash and buy another. I have just converted the film OLIVER from VCR to DVD. What did FAGIN say,"In this world money counts, in the bank large amounts". :clap:
 
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