[brlug-newbies] HD Information and question

[Dustin Puryear]

It's an external IDE or USB drive?

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Charles Dayton wrote:
> Has anyone out there tried to replace an "ailing" internal HD with an
> external type HD, remounted internally, and becoming the primary?
>  
> I've got the drive physically mounted and hooked up, run scans for bad
> sectors, etc, but don't know where to go from here.  Can't seem to get
> it to "boot" the system.  Guess things have changed more than I thought
> from the "old DOS" days.
>  
> Any suggestions?
>  
> Chuck Dayton
> 
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