Comments on: Another Friday hitting the thrift stores http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/archives/2008/03/07/another-friday-hitting-the-thrift-stores/ Rumblings, Ramblings, and Ruminations Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:41:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Steve http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/archives/2008/03/07/another-friday-hitting-the-thrift-stores/#comment-3515 Steve Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:28:33 +0000 http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/archives/2008/03/07/another-friday-hitting-the-thrift-stores/#comment-3515 Sounds good! I may try something like that today. It's definitely comfort-food weather. Cold as blazes, in other words... Working on some computers here at home, re-installing everything on a Dell after replacing the hard drive--went from a 40 GB drive to a 320 GB. That should do it for them. The HD has some problems--half the time it wouldn't even show up in the BIOS. Made getting the data off of it that I needed to recover interesting--actually, it was just a matter of trying over and over until the drive wanted to cooperate, and then getting the data quick. Simply Mepis to the rescue! Worked out OK. Got an HP that I'm about to see if removing the HD will get rid of the weird sounds at startup--I suspect it will. Then will talk with the folks about what they want to do with it. Methinks they will need a drive, and they just bought a replacement computer--a nice one. Don't know if they'll want to put any money into this one or not... Well, gotta get back to the machines, and the dishes, and other housework....stay warm! Sounds good! I may try something like that today. It’s definitely comfort-food weather. Cold as blazes, in other words…

Working on some computers here at home, re-installing everything on a Dell after replacing the hard drive–went from a 40 GB drive to a 320 GB. That should do it for them. The HD has some problems–half the time it wouldn’t even show up in the BIOS. Made getting the data off of it that I needed to recover interesting–actually, it was just a matter of trying over and over until the drive wanted to cooperate, and then getting the data quick. Simply Mepis to the rescue! Worked out OK. Got an HP that I’m about to see if removing the HD will get rid of the weird sounds at startup–I suspect it will. Then will talk with the folks about what they want to do with it. Methinks they will need a drive, and they just bought a replacement computer–a nice one. Don’t know if they’ll want to put any money into this one or not…

Well, gotta get back to the machines, and the dishes, and other housework….stay warm!

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