Oops, resend: Another irregular question . . .

2005-01-28 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
If anyone has noticed that I have been rather quiet recently*, there's a reason. When I tried to copy the files from my old computer which died back in November onto this new computer by putting the hard drives** from the old one into this one in the secondary position, something strange and n

Re: Oops, resend: Another irregular question . . .

2005-01-29 Thread Steve Sloan
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > When I tried to copy the files from my old computer which died > back in November onto this new computer by putting the hard > drives** from the old one into this one in the secondary > position, something strange and not-wonderful happened. The > first one worked fine. Th

Re: Oops, resend: Another irregular question . . .

2005-01-29 Thread Bryon Daly
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:29:37 -0600, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > the night this happened. So, you experts out there, any ideas on how to > completely repair the problem(s), or at least recover the data? My sympathies. I've just had my computer crap out on me, (including a brok

Re: Oops, resend: Another irregular question . . .

2005-01-30 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 01:50 AM Sunday 1/30/2005, Bryon Daly wrote: On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:29:37 -0600, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > the night this happened. So, you experts out there, any ideas on how to > completely repair the problem(s), or at least recover the data? My sympathies. I've just ha

Re: Oops, resend: Another irregular question . . .

2005-01-30 Thread Bryon Daly
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:59:21 -0600, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 01:50 AM Sunday 1/30/2005, Bryon Daly wrote: > > I did not look at the jumpers on the new drive (#1) as they were set at the > factory before attempting to copy from the other drives, but when I got it > out, ther

Re: Oops, resend: Another irregular question . . .

2005-01-30 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:47 PM Sunday 1/30/2005, Bryon Daly wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:59:21 -0600, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 01:50 AM Sunday 1/30/2005, Bryon Daly wrote: > > I did not look at the jumpers on the new drive (#1) as they were set at the > factory before attempting to copy from

Re: Oops, resend: Another irregular question . . .

2005-02-01 Thread Bryon Daly
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:11:07 -0600, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >It sounds like your new drive was set to CS. It's not a good idea to > >mix CS with drives set to master or slave though; you might get lucky > >and have it work, or it might not work. (I doubt it would damage

Re: Oops, resend: Another irregular question . . .

2005-02-02 Thread Robert J. Chassell
I'm about out of ideas without being there to poke at it. First, with only a working disk on the system, try booting using a Knoppix disk and see whether you can read the new hard drive. If you cannot, this is a bad suggestion. (However, I have been able to boot every Intel 386 and compati

Re: Oops, resend: Another irregular question . . .

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Reuter
* Robert J. Chassell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm about out of ideas without being there to poke at it. > > First, with only a working disk on the system, try booting using a > Knoppix disk and see whether you can read the new hard drive. If you > cannot, this is a bad suggestion. (Howev

Re: Oops, resend: Another irregular question . . .

2005-02-02 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 04:28 PM Wednesday 2/2/2005, Robert J. Chassell wrote: I'm about out of ideas without being there to poke at it. First, with only a working disk on the system, try booting using a Knoppix disk and see whether you can read the new hard drive. If you cannot, this is a bad suggestion. (Howeve

Re: Oops, resend: Another irregular question . . .

2005-02-02 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 04:34 PM Wednesday 2/2/2005, Erik Reuter wrote: * Robert J. Chassell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm about out of ideas without being there to poke at it. > > First, with only a working disk on the system, try booting using a > Knoppix disk and see whether you can read the new hard drive.