HD question

David A. Bandel david
Mon May 17 11:55:53 PDT 2004


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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:21:27 -0600
Rick Sivernell <res005ru at verizon.net> 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.
> 

There is a small connector you can buy that will allow you to connect
that hard drive to your IDE connector and power connector on a desktop. 
They're sold (for a coupla quid) as connectors for Flash drives.  I've
made extensive use of mine.  Well worth the money (which isn't much,
shipping will cost more).

David-
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