"Grinder" <grinder@no.spam.maam.com> wrote in message
news:_saak.178466$TT4.141285@attbi_s22...
> Lord Turkey Cough wrote:
>> I tried to use an old computer today and it was
>> diving drive errors, I had not used the comp for
>> over a year, it is possible the drives have seized up?
>> Neither drives work, I tried them on this computer
>> as slaves, one did not show us and the other cause
>> a boot-upp error.
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> It is possible they have both failed. Make sure you have them properly
> jumpered in put them into either PC. Run the diagnostic tools from the
> specific manufacturer. For example, if you have Maxtor drive, get a copy
> of PowerMax to boot from, or Seagate = SeaTools.


Great news I just noticed an IDE cable sitting beside me
which had came out of a box of disks, I had used the existing dual
connection in my new comp, so the drive was connect on a single
cable, anyway I swopped to the cable which came out of the
box and it booted up!! (also set jumper to single drive)

So I am not sure why it did not work as slave in my new
computer.

I could not get the other (smaller) drive to work at all,
but it is a clone of thebigger one basically.

The reason I wanted the old computer up
was to see if the CD drive woud read some
old CDs.
Not sure if I can transfer the drive across or
if I can get the network up I had, it complained about
the network card.
The drive need special software too.
Anyway the drive is working so thats good news.




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