Re: Hard Drive Dilema
From: Catamount (Nope_at_notgonnaspam.me)
Date: 02/17/05
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:38:46 -0500
Mike Hall (MS-MVP) wrote:
> If your drive is not showing, there is a reasonable chance that it has
> crapped out.. I would probably buy a new drive, start over, and then see if
> I could recover stuff from the old one..
>
> In this way, if it has crapped out, you now have a working computer, and you
> may have gotten some extra storage in the event that you get the old one
> back again.. at worst, you will have a working computer..
>
HOWEVER! I would try replacing the cable first. Call me whacky, but
that is so very often the problem in my experience, and costs less than
a hard drive.
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