[brlug-newbies] Newbies Digest, Vol 52, Issue 3

[Charles Dayton]

It's a former USB cased WD800BB that was intended for a "backup" for my home
network, but when the HD in one of my boxes went out, I remounted it as an
IDE, internally in the box.

It has no bootloader, or to my knowledge, anything on it right now.  Not
even formatted.  Does Linux require the drive be formatted?  I've got a copy
of Knoppix 4.0 or Unbutu or Xandros 2.0., if not, but those are not working
either.

So far, I've run a couple of test programs trying to "troubleshoot" the box
and this is all I can find.  The fan was out on the PS, so I replaced the PS
(with a slightly higher output, so I think I'm okay there), ran "memtest 3.3"
on the RAM, "UBCD 411" on the MB and HD,and a HD utility to test for bad
sectors on the HD. Can you tell from the programs that I'm doing this on a
shoestring?


Chuck Dayton


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> 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.
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> Any suggestions?
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> Chuck Dayton
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> From: Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com>
> Subject: Re: [brlug-newbies] HD Information and question
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> 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.
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> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Chuck Dayton
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> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:54:13 -0500
> From: "Nathan Toups" <nathantoups at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [brlug-newbies] HD Information and question
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> what bootloader do you have installed on the new hardrive?
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> On 10/14/07, Charles Dayton <charles.dayton at gmail.com> 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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