Computers

It surprising how quickly you forget how to do something when you haven't done it for a while. I'm in the middle of installing a new hard drive on my general workhorse computer. Getting it fitted into the machine with the right master jumper setting, firing it up, formatting a system partition and installing Win2K went pretty smoothly.

It was then I realised it hadn't detected the existing slave drive (containing very valuable data). Much fruitless fiddling about within the BIOS failed to make the drive appear in Windows. It was then I swallowed all pride and consulted the help files. Disk Manager... oh yeah... I forgot about that. Sure enough my drive was there but marked as "foreign". A quick click here and there and all was well. Fired up explorer to check if the data was all intact and I'm smiling once again.

All that is left is to format the remaining 55Gb on the new drive (handy extra storage) install Norton Ghost and copy over my clean and patched Win2K ghost image with all the correct hardware drivers and network settings.

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