Hi Ralph, What a sly way to give yourself a new computer for Christmas!
As far as getting the data off the old HDD, there are a couple of options: 1) Borrow my external HDD => USB dongle 2) Bring in the HDD to CLUG on the 6th and copy everything to CD/DVD (how much data is there?) 3) Bring in your new system & old HDD and copy everything to the new system. 4) Other ideas? I'll bring my USB to IDE/SATA adaptor on the 6th. I'd rather not part with it for too long but if if 1->3 above don't work for you then I can let you have it for a week or so. Cheers, J.J. On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 02:20 -0700, Shawn wrote: > For about $40, you can pick up a USB external adapter that will allow > you to connect an IDE or SATA drive to a computer via the USB ports. > This would allow you to transfer data from the old hard drive to the new > drive. While it is more cash initially, these devices are well worth > the expense as it saves a large amount of time managing drives > (physically), doing backups, etc. It also opens a few data storage > possibilities that are not otherwise available to you without spending > even more cash on external drive enclosures. > > A few folks at CLUG have these devices and may be willing to lend them > out for a short bit. > > Shawn > > > > Ralph Boland wrote: > >> When shutting down my computer last night I forgot to close the CD door. > >> The computer shutdown but left the door open. When I tried to reboot > >> it wouldn't start up. By pushing the door I managed to get the door > >> closed. > >> At this point (or before when the computer shut down) there was a > >> sound like a motor, likely the CD drive motor. This sound wouldn't > >> stop even though the computer was shutdown. The computer would not > >> turn on at this point so I unplugged it. I tried several times to > >> reboot after plugging in the computer but without success. The motor > >> sound restarted but the computer otherwise remained completely off. > >> After several tries the motor sound stopped. > >> The only thing I see now is to bring it to a repair shop. > >> Can anyone suggest where I should get it repaired that I can reach by > >> C-train and if necessary bus? > >> My computer is over 5 years old (2.7G celeron, 768M memory, cost > >> 600$ in 2004) > >> but is fast enough for me for the moment. At what repair cost point > >> does it make sense to just buy a new computer? > > > > ... > > > > Henrick kindly came by and looked at my computer and determined that > > the problem was very likely the motherboard. He suggested I buy a used > > bare bones system cheap from Vfxweb.com and port my components across. > > Unfortunately they didn't have any system matching mine. > > So in the end I bought a new system; much faster but not money > > I wanted to spend right now. C'est la vie. > > > > Anyway, though I backed up most of my stuff, > > there are some things I still would like to get off my old system. > > Hopefully Vfxweb will eventually get a matching bare bones system > > that I can buy and install my hard drive onto. Meanwhile if anybody > > has an old system that I > > can plug my hard drive into and unload the data I want that would be a > > great help. > > My old system has a IDE Parallel ATA hard drive and DVD burner with > > 512M of > > PC3330 memory + 256M PC2700 memory. I am hoping to get the old system > > running so that I can learn how to get the two boxes talking to each other. > > But if Clug has a good use for it I would be prepared to surrender it. > > > > Regards, > > > > Ralph (Rocky) Boland > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
