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Skriven 2005-01-10 01:01:26 av Ellen K. (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 1852 av Gary Britt (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Drive connection standards: EIDE, Serial ATA, Firewire, USB, other?
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From: Ellen K. <72322.enno.esspeayem.1016@compuserve.com>

And before HE expires!!!

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:29:38 -0500, "Gary Britt" <zotu@nospamforme.com> wrote in
message <41e1e9e6$1@w3.nls.net>:

>Sorry to hear that.  Hopefully they will pan out for you before they expire.
>
>Gary
>  "John Oellrich" <john@oellrich.us> wrote in message
news:41e1a70e@w3.nls.net...
>  Gary,
>
>  The Lucent stock price doesn't matter to me, my options are sooo far under
water that it would take a bathysphere to find them ;->
>
>  --
>  john
>
>  john@oellrich.us
>    "Gary Britt" <zotu@nospamforme.com> wrote in message
news:41e0a0ae$1@w3.nls.net...
>    Hey John,  good to see you around!  Lucent stock has sure been on a
rollercoaster the last 6 months.
>
>    Gary
>      "John Oellrich" <john@oellrich.us> wrote in message
news:41df5e04@w3.nls.net...
>      Gary,
>
>      I have had it go two ways. BSOD, which means the drive had such an
incompatible driver on it that it just completely puked over the new setup, or
just a rough time nursing WinXP through somewhat successful boots, but having
issues with things like USB or 1394 drivers.
>
>      --
>      john
>
>      john@oellrich.us
>        "Gary Britt" <zotu@nospamforme.com> wrote in message
news:41de0870$1@w3.nls.net...
>        That I don't know, because I never ran NT4, but if you try pulling a
win2k
>        installed hard disk and putting it into a different machine with
different
>        chipset/motherboard and hard drive controller chips.  It will blue
screen
>        with inaccessible boot drive.  I've seen web info where some claim
that if
>        you take the win2k install and delete all special hardware devices and
get
>        everything back to standard vga, standard int13 disk drive
controllers, etc
>        etc., and then put the hard drive in the machine with the new
motherboard
>        and boot up that it will recognize the new hardware devices and not
>        necessarily blue screen on you.
>
>        Gary
>
>        "Geo" <georger@nls.net> wrote in message news:41da0ac9@w3.nls.net...
>        > I would think W2K would be more forgiving about hardware changes
than NT4
>        > would.
>        >
>        > Geo.
>        >
>        > "Gary Britt" <garyb@nospamforme.com> wrote in message
>        > news:41d967b3@w3.nls.net...
>        > > I'd suggest swapping out the motherboard before upgrading to
Win2K.
>        > > Otherwise with the hardware changes you might have to reinstall
Win2K
>        all
>        > > over again after the motherboard swap.
>        > >
>        > > Gary
>        > >
>        > > "Randall Parker" <STOPtechieSPAMpunditNOW@STOPfutureSPAMpundit.com
NOW>
>        > wrote
>        > > in message news:41d8e4a9@w3.nls.net...
>        > > > Gary,
>        > > >
>        > > > Initially I just want to plug the drive into a 5 year old
motherboard
>        > and
>        > > copy the
>        > > > existing old drive's partitions over to it and make it bootable
(going
>        > to
>        > > try using
>        > > > Acronis Disk Manager to do this). Then a couple of weeks later
upgrade
>        > to
>        > > Win2k
>        > > > (running NT on this box). Then in a month I intend to swap out
the
>        > > motherboard and
>        > > > processor and the new MoBo should have all the fancy UDMA mode
>        support.
>        > > >
>        > > > So if initially I'm using older slower modes it is no big deal.
I just
>        > > want it to
>        > > > work at each stage of my migration.
>        > > >
>        > > > I'm doing the upgrade in slow motion with time between steps to
make
>        > sure
>        > > each step
>        > > > didn't mess up anything.
>        > > >
>        > > > Gary Britt wrote:
>        > > > > Maxtor drives have some good sales going for the past few
months.  I
>        > > have 2
>        > > > > Maxtor 160 gb 133 mhz UDMA drives that have 16 mb cache and
rotation
>        > > speed
>        > > > > of 7200 rpm.  If your motherboard doesn't support 133 mhz UDMA
6
>        > modes,
>        > > you
>        > > > > can do what I did and get a Promise Ultra 133/Tx2 hard drive
>        > controller.
>        > > > > Fry's has these 160 gb Maxtor drives on sale for $129, if
memory
>        > serves.
>        > > > >
>        > > > > Gary
>        > >
>        > >
>        >
>        >

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