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March 20, 2006
Another one bites the dust
Another WD2000 (200gig WD Caviar IDE drive) bit the dust about three months ago. I only today got around to replacing it. Bought the Sony Viao about two years ago and installed the drive in late 2004. About three months ago the Sony stopped booting. I thought that the boot drive had taken a dump so I bought a new 100Gig drive and put it on the side of my desk to install and rebuild the system when I had a minute. Today when I turned it on, I decided to check the boot sequence to see which drive was in fact failing. The BIOS went through, found an error on the second drive and then Windows started to boot, so I figured out it was not the boot drive (oops). Unplug the WD 2000 and reboot. No problem machine boots fine. Yank out the old WD 2000, connect the new Maxtor ultra ATA /133 to the Promise IDE card and off you go. Over to Windows hardware utiltiy to partition the drive and format it and an hour later I am storing stuff on it. No drivers to install. And the Promise card worked seamlessly from the Western Digital to the Maxtor. Love it. Sometimes those "big" projects you have been putting off are really simple....
Posted by Martin at March 20, 2006 11:07 PM
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