Subj : Re: Ntldr
To   : CHARLES SCAGLIONE
From : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
Date : Sat Oct 23 2004 03:30 pm

-=> CHARLES SCAGLIONE wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC>Looking at www.compusa.com
 WC>I see a card by Siig and one by Belkins that suit my needs here.
 WC>Either card supports over 137 Gig barrier.

 CS> Both the Siig and Belkin cards are good.  I've seen them in
 CS> CompUSA as you have.  One thing about using a card with on board
 CS> BIOS - it's going to extend the time it takes to boot the system.
 CS>  But that can't be helped.

Yup, been there, still happy.

 CS> Whenever a system is too old to support a large hard drive, (not
 CS> necessarily the 137GB barrier) I usually recommend a new
 CS> motherboard. The newer boards support 48bit LBA and SATA.  My
 CS> current board is limited to 137GB but for now that's not a
 CS> problem.  I'm running XP dual booting with Win2000 and still have
 CS> plenty of drive space with an 80GB and 20GB drive in the machine.

Hey any idea what form factor the H.P. Pavilion line is?
Maybe Micro-ATX with non-standard ATX power supply?

Anyone?

I can live without SATA and USB 2.0 for now but sure do need some 
hard drive space.

Fixed income, limited means so all but about 50 bucks worth of
used computer stuff purchased here in the last 5 years or more.

Most everything here is freeware, tossed  abandoned as dead and repaired 
by me or abandoned due to upgrade.

Scored a 19 inch CRT SVGA monitor thrown out this morning after 
spotting it walking the dog :-)

Second such score in 1 year!!!

Now if someone would just toss a dead computer with a working 
8.4 - 30 Gig hard drive.

I _had_ Win 98 and Knoppix Linux setup on separate partitions on 
the old deceased drive dual boot, that's a small additional boot delay.

The Hewlett Packard was found on my doorstep in pieces left by someone
who knew I was into computers.

I fdisk/MBR'ed the Quantum hard drive back to life a few times but 
eventually it failed completely.

Scandisk revealed to me what looked like physical damage to 
the media just becase all the bad sectors were in the first quarter
of the drive with none at all in the rest.

Either someone jolted it when on or whapped it upside the 
box when Windows froze up.

It'll take me a while to save enough for the Belkins card and 
large drive.
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