It Lives …
Well, the computer seems to be back together again, although I fear that there’s something a bit screwy in the old PC. You see, I had everything put nearly to rights yesterday. A nice, new, shiny 80GB hard disk for the primary drive, and the 160GB drive for data. The WindowsXP install was fresh and clean and fast, and my core software was all newly installed. I had figured a way to use KNOPPIX to migrate the “stuck” data from the old C: drive, and things were looking great. Excellent!
Or so I thought …
Things suddenly became a different matter entirely. Since everything was going so well, it seemed the likely time to remove the old 40GB drive, so that it could make its way to Donna’s machine.
As soon as I removed the drive, and re-ran the CMOS setup, I was confronted with a boot error that indicated that NTLDR could not be found. Huh? So, I re-ran setup, only to find that the PC could no longer recognize the new drive. SH*T! I quickly put everything back just as it had been before the failure, but, no joy.
My assumption was that the drive had gone DOA, and so, I took it off to CompUSA for a replacement. No problem there, a new drive was handed to me quite cheerfully, and so, after a look at new PCs, I headed home to start over.
Only the PC still can’t recognize the new drive. It hangs during the auto-recognize phase. WTF?
So, I decided, what the heck. I have the data I need from the old 40Gigger, so, I’ll just re-install XP from scratch on the old drive, and put the new on in for additional storage. Only now, the XP install CD was only too glad to repair the old installation, which it abjectly refused to do earlier in the week.
I frankly don’t get it. And, I frankly don’t care. As long as the machine is running, and relatively well, I’m reluctant to touch anything. I am wondering why the thing stopped being able to recognize the larger hard disk. Maybe somehow, the BIOS tables got reset to the original BIOS settings, before I did a FLASH upgrade. I’d do a flash upgrade now, but, I’m afraid the machine would die completely.
I guess I need to start saving for a new machine …
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