HD question

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Thursday 20 November 2003 04:21 pm, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> Lonnie
>
>    You do have a point here, I did try a 2nd hd on the laptop, it worked as
> it should, it was a small drive. The original will not boot, but fdisk can
> read the partition. grub will start then hang. Can not put this drive in to
> older laptop as it has a 1 g limit. I would like to test it on a machine
> that could boot it up. I just have no means to perform this. Any other
> suggestions here is appreciated, I do not want to buy any thing I do not
> have to. It is a 12 g hard drive, Fitsitu I beleive.
>
> cheers

2.5" to 3.5" HDD adapter kits are available to connect laptop hard drives to 
desktop PC's.  If you depend upon laptops, it might not be a bad thing to 
keep on hand.  IIRC, I saw one for about $10.

Andrew Gould