For those of you who stop by this blog on a regular basis, thank you. Thanks also to those who are following this blog. I have been having some PC problems of late. Namely my Dell Dimension desktop hard drive refuses to boot internally. I suspect it's been on the way out for sometime. Fortunately, having built a PC for my father I am able to blog and do other computer stuff using that one.
The main problem has been getting hold of a replacement hard drive for the Dell. Easy, you may think, but no, nothing in life is easy! Having removed the Dell's covers to get at and remove the existing hard drive I then go on eBay and find a reasonably priced replacement 250 GB drive - great, the seller assures me that it will fit inside the Dell. Hooray, much excitement and anticipation awaiting it's arrival. As per usual I'm left feeling flat as the Dell's hard drive requires SATA connections and the replacement drive is IDE - not a good start as I was planning to have two drives with two different operating systems on. One that I could just use for internet purposes only.
After searching Google I found the Dimensions operating manual and also found that additional cables from Dell would cost GBP15.00. Doing a web search I found a natty little device which converts SATA and IDE to USB. Brilliant! However, there is a catch, you cannot boot from a USB drive (or at least I do not know how to). But thankfully the data on the existing Dell drive is safe, which is one good thing.
To cut a long story short, I found yet again on eBay a SATA drive for just under twenty pounds including shipping, which I'm waiting for at the moment. Delayed due to the holiday weekend.
As for the IDE drive, well that's now in another desktop and running okay. Words of wisdom - never think upgrading a PC is going to be an easy task!
Upgrading and Repairing PCs (19th Edition)
Unfortunately my Second Life project has been put on the back burner, hopefully all will be sorted next week, as we have not had any post at all for two days.
Unfortunately my Second Life project has been put on the back burner, hopefully all will be sorted next week, as we have not had any post at all for two days.
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