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

[Dustin Puryear]

I wonder how fast that drive is, especially if it was going to be used
in a USB drive?

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Charles Dayton wrote:
> 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 
> 
>  
> On 10/14/07, *newbies-request at brlug.net
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>       1. HD Information and question (Charles Dayton)
>       2. Re: HD Information and question (Dustin Puryear)
>       3. Re: HD Information and question (Nathan Toups)
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>     Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:41:21 -0500
>     From: "Charles Dayton" < charles.dayton at gmail.com
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>     Subject: [brlug-newbies] HD Information and question
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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.
> 
>     Any suggestions?
> 
>     Chuck Dayton
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>     Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:42:55 -0500
>     From: Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com
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>     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.
>     >
>     > Any suggestions?
>     >
>     > Chuck Dayton
>     >
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>     Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:54:13 -0500
>     From: "Nathan Toups" <nathantoups at gmail.com
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>     Subject: Re: [brlug-newbies] HD Information and question
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>     what bootloader do you have installed on the new hardrive?
> 
>     On 10/14/07, Charles Dayton < charles.dayton at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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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