> I really need some help. I recently decided to move a hard drive, from > a machine with a failing power supply fan to a newer machine. The > drive is an 80 GB SATA, and worked just fine until I powered down on > the machine it was in. > > After installing it in this newer box, I booted up, to find that the > drive was undreadable. I didn't get any hard drive failure notices, > just could not read the drive. > > I had yet another older machine with a 250 gb sata drive, which I > recently replaced because it did fail. I had installed it on this > older compaq machine, installed 8.10 ubuntu desktop on it and was > preparing to start using it on my home LAN. It worked fine there. 2 > days ago I pulled the drive from that machine, to install in this > newer box and found that I can't even install 8.10 on it, which I > tried as I could not get that drive to boot up either. > > What am I doing wrong, other than moving working hard drives, from > older machines to newer ones? > > Please help > > Scott
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