Saturday, March 24, 2001
Computer Upgrades
One thing about having a job, even if I'm working 6 days a week, I have the money to buy stuff. We just bought a 40 gig hard drive for our desktop system, and then today, my dear hubby buys a 10 gig harddrive for our laptop, too! So, here we are, hooking up the 40 gig harddrive up to the main system so I can partition it, and the computer doesn't recognize the drive. ARGH! So off to the motherboard manufacturer's website, to grab a Bios flash. I upgrade the Bios and it doesn't work. I spend 30 minutes on the phone (on hold) to tech support and the tech is going to email me a beta bios flash. Well, it doesn't show up, so I head to their website, find the beta bios upgrades, and FTP the entire line to my computer, and install the newest one. Now the drive is seen, all 40 gigs of it!
The drives were set up with a multi boot, for me, the hubby, and a separate boot for burning CD's. Then the main applications drive. So, no matter what you booted into, you saw a drive C, and a Drive E on the 10 gig drive. On the 6 gig drive, you had Drive D, F, G and H. Most of the drives were full, so we had a total of 16 gigs to copy over to the new drive.
So, I copy the contents of our 6 gig drive, and the contents of a 7 gig partition over to the drive (we're taking out a 6 gig drive, and leaving in a 10 gig in addition to the 40 gig drive), and then delete the applications (Drive E), partition. I then used Partition Magic, which is a really nifty program you can get at: http://www.powerquest.com to resize partitions, move them around (so they matched the old setup), and hoped my applications wouldn't have a lot of broken links. Once that was done, I had the hubby unhook the 6 gig drive... and then found out I couldn't boot the computer. He had accidently unhooked the 10 gig boot drive. *sigh* Once he got the right drive unhooked, the computer STILL wouldn't boot, because we'd had the new drive hooked in on the secondary IDE controller, and when we unhooked the 6 gig drive, the computer didn't like it! *laugh*
Okay, so once it's all said and done, the drive works great, I've got TONS of space, but one small problem. Our CD rom drives don't work... *sigh* Now, I guess I have to call tech support AGAIN to see if THAT can't be fixed. *sigh* At least, now, I won't be running out of drive space. Either on our laptop or on my main system! :) But, so much for the CD drives, at least until I can sit on hold again and see if there isn't a Bios upgrade, that can fix our Bios upgrade!
Aren't computers wonderful?
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Isn't having a new computer or computer componants fun??? And speaking of URL changes... what is it with us??? We all change webhosts at the same time! Scary!
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