Re: MESS

From: Tom (noway_at_nothere.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:17:55 -0500

"Scorpiobuzz" <Scorpiobuzz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DD69A780-81B2-41A2-9530-9E046F7C95C0@microsoft.com...
>I have made a true mess of things inside my computer. I got a computer
>from
> a friend to work with. If anyone can walk me through this mess, I would
> greatly appreciate it. Here is what I have:
> 1. Quantum Fireball ST - This has a bigger cable connection 50pin?
> 2. Quantum Fireball EX - This has the little cable connection 38pin?
> 3. A card in the PCI? slot with a connection for the 50pin? connection
> 4. Toshiba CD-Rom drive with the same 50pin? connection.
> 5. A zip drive that apparently attached to another card in the PCI slot -
> only smaller.
> 6. Pentium II on the mother board with two little connection places for
> the
> 38pin? connection.
>
> Now, I turned the thing on and went to a NT Server log-on screen. I then
> brilliantly went to the scsi utility and formated the Fireball ST drive,
> thinking that I definately didn't want that NT server info.
> Then I got frustrated and unhooked everything, experimented with a few
> different things to no avail. And now I am sitting in front of an open
> shell
> with all the omponnents out and in front of me. Apparently, there are
> jumper
> settings and SCSI ID's and whole bunch of other things I only barely
> understand.
>
> So, I just want to put it all back together, throw on XP, load up some
> music
> programs and play. Can someone walk me through how to get there...or is
> it
> like the old song "you can't get there from here"?
> Help!

"You can't there from here"!

Honestly, just the hard drives you list would be a near 100% indicator that
XP will not run on that system. Those hard drives, when made were in range
from over 3gigs to 12 gigs of drive space. And if the drives are the
sammler, XP will barely fit onto it, after you load some other apps.

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