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Postby EckoZero » May 9th, '06, 03:09



Its now 3:07pm GMT and I'm sill up, drinking coffee and eating a magnum, because I have to change over a hard drive but first I have to copy everything onto the other PC.

Anyone else up due to pointless exercises like mine?

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Postby Tomo » May 9th, '06, 08:49

I had managed to achieve unconsciousness (hurrah!) but was rudely interrupted by a courier this morning. I don't call 8:20am a 9-5 delivery! He said it enables him to get home early.

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Postby EckoZero » May 9th, '06, 09:10

Bah. I hate it when people come earlier than a set time so they can "get finished earlier".

When we work 9-5 we dont turn up at 7:30 demanding to be let into work so we can finish at 3:30... neither should they.

And as a by the way, the installation of a new hard drive completely failed, owing to the fact that a TIME PC wont updgrade with anything but TIME parts :(

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Postby SirRawlins » May 9th, '06, 09:48

From memory (no pun intended) didnt 'Time' go bust quite some time (not another pun) ago!?

I wouldnt have thought they would need a specific hard drive, you should be able to clip in any old box, unless there is somthing on the BIOS that blocking certain drive size and things, but even then you should be able to 'clip' the disk be smaller than it is.


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Postby katrielalex » May 9th, '06, 15:51

...I'm no hardware expert but I don't see how Time would be able to refuse drives...maybe it requires a copy of a system partition on the drive somewhere?

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Postby EckoZero » May 9th, '06, 17:35

Well I used one that worked on my eMachines PC fine and it just wouldn't have any of it :(

Also it didn't help that Time didn't give me a damn boot cd so I had to try and make do with what I had :?

Yes I too was thinking it should be possible to bypass it... Any ideas? :D

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Postby trickyricky » May 9th, '06, 20:07

What kind is the hard drive? One that you actually put in the machine? or a portable one? I never go anywhere without my portable hard drive! My computer has got nothing on it because its all on there!

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Postby SirRawlins » May 9th, '06, 20:56

What sort of connections are you using buddy? IDE (thick ribbon cable) or SATA (thin cable)? ... and when you said "having none of it", what do you mean? is the machine letting you format the drive? or is it not recognising it at all?

What version of windows are you trying to run?

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Postby EckoZero » May 9th, '06, 21:29

SirRawlins wrote:What sort of connections are you using buddy? IDE (thick ribbon cable) or SATA (thin cable)? ... and when you said "having none of it", what do you mean? is the machine letting you format the drive? or is it not recognising it at all?

What version of windows are you trying to run?

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Using IDE, trying to run XP. The machine isn't letting me format the drive when it's the only one in there. If there's another one with it it just doesn't recognise it at all... *sigh*


Please help... lol
These damn things are driving me insane!

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Postby katrielalex » May 9th, '06, 22:29

Try protonic.com - there's a few hardware guys on there.

It may take a few days but you should get some help :)

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Postby Steverino » May 10th, '06, 00:29

The most common thing that I see people get wrong is not setting the jumpers correctly on the drive as to whether it's master/slave or cable select on the channel.

Try booting into the BIOS setup with only the one drive attached, and seeing if the drive is listed. Your old Time BIOS probably doesn't support drives over 32Gb, so you may need to spec it down to that size if it's bigger. Sometimes that means adjusting another jumper on the drive before it will be recognised. Usually they're labelled.

If there is only one drive, it should be the master, if there are two drives, you need one master, one slave (or cable select for both). Don't set one as master/slave, and the other as CSEL. Also check the cable is correctly inserted (some old data cables aren't keyed so they insert both ways), and the drive is powered.

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