[OKDXA] Hard Drives

[Kim Elmore]

Depends on the operating system and the nature of the problem.

You can use Norton GHOST in most cases and things will be fine.  Under XP, 
you get to make a limited number of hardware changes every 6 months 
(something like 3) before it quits and makes you call Micro$oft and explain 
yourself.

Like XP, under 2000, things usually go well, but sometimes not.  A straight 
cloned disk will probably be OK, but you may have trouble if the disk is 
"dynamic."

Windows 98, 95 and DOS are easy-peasy, as these are both DOS-based OSs. 
Norton GHOST will cone these just fine.  Dunno about ME, but seeing as how 
it's a buggy version of 98, it should go fine, too.

If you don't have GHOST, you gotta buy it and if you're gonna do this only 
once, it may not be not worth the purchase. In that case, see what your 
local PC shop charges for this service and go the cheapest, fastest (time 
is money) route.

Kim, N5OP



At 08:57 AM 6/14/2004, you wrote:
>Hi Guys......................
>
>Hope everyone is enjoying summer in OK. This is the time for twr and ant work
>for the contest season this fall. I'm working on the erection of 2 twrs and 3
>ant's here at the "Lilly Pad" One of the twrs is 90' and in a high wind the
>pad is wobbling. So I  may hv to sink concrete pillars for stabilization. My
>immediate task though is to replace the hard drive in my contest laptop.
>Has anyone ever undertaken this task as I never hv ?? Is this a difficult
>task and is there anything particular I should be aware of or should I 
>just take
>it into a computer shop and hv them do it and pay them $25 ?? Not a high 
>price
>for stupidity I guess.
>
>Froggy.............................
>Take a Frog To Lunch.......................Tomorrow
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                           Kim Elmore, Ph.D.
                        University of Oklahoma
         Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
"All of weather is divided into three parts: Yes, No, and Maybe. The
greatest of these is Maybe" The original Latin appears to be garbled.