[K3PZN-List] Who is the resident computer expert of the club ??

[Philip Karras]

Andy has given good advice it is what I was going to suggest.

Remember, when something fails return it to the last working state before assuming something has died. This applies to all things electronic & otherwise!

73 de ke3fl
Phil

--- On Tue, 1/5/10, Andy Leeds <wo3l at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Andy Leeds <wo3l at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [K3PZN-List] Who is the resident computer expert of the club ??
> To: k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 7:05 PM
> 1st thing is to pull the drive you
> installed today and make sure it 
> still boots off the internal disk.
> 
> The USB disk should be hotplug(able) unless something very
> strange is going 
> on, so with the system booted connect that device and make
> sure the OS 
> sees it and things are OK.
> 
> To work out the boot issues check the BIOS boot order and
> see if it 
> added the new USB device to the top causing the SATA or IDE
> drive to 
> fall off the bottom of the list.
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/5/2010 18:43, Sean Shaffer wrote:
> >
> > I may have done something stupid but can't quite
> tell.
> >
> > I may need another pair of eyes on something.
> >
> >
> >
> > I installed a 500GB hard drive into an old PC
> >
> > (not quite that old, 2003-ish maybe).
> >
> > All was well, I copied my data to it and only had to
> >
> > fix the bootloader.
> >
> > For a week it worked without issues.
> >
> >
> >
> > Today I had everything turned off, plugged it all
> into
> >
> >   a new surge protector, plugged in a
> second usb
> >
> > external drive and turned it all back on.
> >
> >
> >
> > On reboot all I get is the PXE net boot option and a
> >
> > message that no boot device is found and I should
> >
> > the cables.
> >
> >
> >
> > I tried 3 IDE cables and 2 power cables, I cannot get
> >
> > the IDE drives (either the new one or the old one) to
> >
> > be recognized.
> >
> >
> >
> > DVD/CD still works, I can run off boot discs or
> LiveCDs
> >
> >
> >
> > Sean KB3IMT
> >
> >    
> 
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