yes, I thought of that Skip. I am looking for a copy of my working Puppy, cleaned the shack last week and have misplaced it. I should point out that I am close to having almost everything I need ,expect OS, backed up on teh web and accessible when I need to start over. I have my log backed up and I email it to myself as an attachment via Gmail, then use products like DXLab, HRD, Fldigib that can easily be reinstalled for free, and my Multipsk license is also backup via the Internet. Today's zapped computer however contains 20 gigs of paid for Itunes stuff. Luckily a nifty program call copytrans allows me to retrieve back to Itunes from the Ipod.
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:47 PM, kh6ty <kh...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > Andy, > > Try running a NBEMS Puppy Linux CD live. You can access all the data and > windows partitions with Puppy from the Puppy Desktop. > > 73, Skip KH6TY > > > Andrew O'Brien wrote: > > > > > > After years or running PC's without issues, I have had 4 go bad in 12 > > months. Two this week, 4 days apart via thunderstorms . One went > > today just an hour after I had fully reinstalled ham equipment on a > > new PC that arrived yesterday. The new one survived, I had unplugged > > it at the sound of thunder. I powered off the older one but forgot to > > remove the power cord, it got zapped. I put in a spare power supply > > that i had, that lasted 5 minutes and gave up the ghost. Maybe > > something else was weakened by the original zap and caused the second > > power supply to burn out. > > > > Anyway, my main issue is the frustrating fact that I have data on hard > > drives that seems ridiculously complex to retrieve when using > > Windows based PCs. My local computer store tells me that one cannot > > simply take a hard drive from a old Pc and place it in a new PC even > > if you have a Windows license disc for the new PC. Is this correct? > > In the past I have taken old drives and installed them in different > > PC's as slave drives. However this causes one to have to re-install > > many programs because they were originally installed to the registry > > on a C-drive. > > > > So what do I do with 5 hard drives laying around the shack ? In > > particular one two-drive system with 160 gigs of useful data on it > > (both have Windows OS on them since both are from different original > > PC systems!) . It would be nice to install in to a PC without having > > to get a HD with an OS on it. > > -- > > Andy > > > > > > -- > *Skip KH6TY* > http://KH6TY.home.comcast.net > > -- Andy
