Thread: Gaaahhh! HDD just died!

Originally Posted by p38arover

I've got a 540 Mb drive you can have if you like. I gave my spare bigger drives to my son (they weren't very big - only about 10Gb)

Ron

It would be impossible to install im running 2 drives a c and a d drive one has the 1.1Gb and the other has 114mb i just cant run programs on it without manually hunting them down

Ah well, the freezer trick didn't work.

With the new HDD, I've updated Win XP to SP2 but I can't "grow" the partition to 250Gb so I'm apparently stuck with 131 Gb (or 127Gb in 1024kb multiples) - I don't know why it's not the 137Gb limitation on early releases of XP. The BIOS says I've got a 250 Gb drive.

I wonder if I can add another partition to access the unused space using an aftermarket partition manager. I'v e tried Seagate's DiscWizard to increase the partition size but that didn't work.

Oh. it's all too hard.

Bloody PCs - I hate 'em!

Maybe I should install the Win XP Professional I bought recently.

Ron

I remember my first HDD was 5Mb - that was huge!

I also had 4 external DSDD hard drives connected to my System 80 - they cost me a fortune. My dot amtrix printer (a Citoh 8510 - it's out in the garage) cost me $800.

When I later got a 286 PC, a second hand 386 motherboard upgrade cost me $1200.

Ron

I remember those days. We had one of the first 386's. Entire system with laser printer cost my old man $25,000!
Friends used to come round just to marvel at its ability. Also used to annoy telstra as the phone wne through it and dad could list the date, time, length and number of every incoming and outgoing call.

PS sorry that didn't work ron.

Originally Posted by George130

PS sorry that didn't work ron.

Ahh, no worries. Thinking about it, there wasn't much data on it as we had only bought the PC about two weeks or so ago.

Fortunately, we have hard copies of the documents so I can recreate them fairly quickly.

Oddly enough, I had been considering setting the PC up with a RAID config as the motherbnoard supports that. I was too late.

Ron

Originally Posted by George130

I remember those days. We had one of the first 386's. Entire system with laser printer cost my old man $25,000!

Flamin' heck!

My first intro to personal computers (as apart from minis and mainferame computers at work) was when my employer, OTC, set up a message handling centre to take international telegrams using modified Dick Smith System 80 Business Computers (this was 2-3 years before before the IBM PC came out). The tech staff who worked under me were responsible fo the maintenance of the PCs and the message handling mainframe and KDUs (Keyboard Display Units). I bought a System 80 for myself because of that.

Ron

Originally Posted by p38arover

Ahh, no worries. Thinking about it, there wasn't much data on it as we had only bought the PC about two weeks or so ago.

Fortunately, we have hard copies of the documents so I can recreate them fairly quickly.

Oddly enough, I had been considering setting the PC up with a RAID config as the motherbnoard supports that. I was too late.

Ron

Best thing you can do I run SATA RAID mirror for C: and a strip set SATA pair for D: This gives me a fast large scratch disc for temporary files when doing video editing or for Photohop and I also have the luxury of redundant C: drives. All discs are the same so if I loose a mirror disc I can break the strip set and use one of those in the mirror. For "offline" storage I run a 1TB RAID5 Network storage.

The other thing most people over look is power protection: either a UPS or a line conditioner, not one of the "surge protection" boards, worthless things, you need to protect against low power as much if not more than for spikes and surges.