OK, it's sounds like it's failing hard drive, all right, but none of the problems I was having with the old computer were anywhere close to the hard drive.
My son did flip a jumper on the old drivewhen he put it in the new computer, though. Any possibility that was a mistake (maybe a _correctable_ mistake)? I do have backups of the most important music and some of the lesser music. I will lose some incidental arrangements, etc. but nothing that will stop the world from spinning. RH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Sherber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] FAT32 to NTFS > At 07:39 PM 11/6/2003, Carl Donsbach wrote: > >You could try temporarily removing the new XP hard drive from the new > >machine, and installing and booting from the old ME hard drive. (You won't > >need to completely remove the new drive, just plug the data and power > >cables into the ME drive.) It should boot, but will spend some time > >looking for drivers for the new hardware, so you'll probably need your ME > >install disks. Once that is done, try copying the files to a zip disk or > >burning a CD. > > Oh, I really think this is not the right way to go about this. For > starters, this doesn't gain you anything -- it doesn't make the files any > more accessible. And you have all the additional problems of trying to get > this drive to boot on the new machine, and the added strain on the drive > which this causes. > > No, if this really is a failing hard drive (which I strongly suspect), your > best bet is to try to get your important data files off it as quickly and > easily as possible. > > Aaron. > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
