c1rcle opened this issue on Jun 22, 2002 ยท 40 posts
KateTheShrew posted Sun, 23 June 2002 at 11:50 AM
Nosfiratu, good advice. My crash went something like this: 1. Install new 120 gig HD. 2. Discover it's too big for the BIOS to handle. 3. Get new motherboard with faster cpu and newer BIOS. 4. Install new motherboard. 5. Re-install new HD. 6. Say a lot of swear words while formating and partitioning new HD so the flippin' OS will read it all. 7. Move all data from old HD to new HD. 8. Make sure all data on new HD is readable and works and such. 9. Remove old HD and give to hubby. 10. Go make dinner. 11. Finish eating and come back in and try to access data on new HD. 12. Discover that data is all unreadable. 13. Attempt to reinstall old HD only to discover that hubby has already reformatted and installed in his machine. 14. Panic. 15. Spend the next day in bed recovering from panic attack. 16. Spend the week running recovery programs and keeping fingers crossed. 17. Give up when recovery programs yield zero results. 18. Spend the next month and a half moving stuff from the backup CD's to the new HD, installing device drivers and other software. Gawd, what a nightmare that was. But I'm almost finished getting it all back and restored to some semblance of what it was before. Kate