Re: HDD will not complete post

Accurate details of the problem and error messages you receive are the key
to your solution.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"dc"wrote:
| hi,
|
| I tried to replace a 120G HDD in the same computer after removing it for
| a while, formatting,
| loading same OS, and using another one for a while. After replacing the
| original HDD while posting
| onscreen message says it is looking for a file that can not be found.
|
| The reason; it was acting glitchy and I removed to preserve some of the
| scripting and settings for
| proprietary apps. Went and placed it back into the same computer and it
| didn't find a file at posting, before loading W2KSP4.
|
| Any ideas other than hanging it into another box as a slave and
| transferring the contents to another HDD or DVD.
|
| Or possibly buying an external USB HDD case, installing it, and seeing
| if another will see the HDD okay to transfer all of the files on the HDD
| to another computer to save all of the files.
|
| TIA,
| dc
|
|


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