PS 7 will not load – your assistance appreciated, thanks

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alan_high
Jul 18, 2006
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Hi Len

Thank you for your link and advice.

At the same time as posting this I had also addressed the question to Evesham who supplied the system and they said adding a secondary drive might cause problems :

to quote – "Dear Alan

Thank you for your e-mail of 15th July 06

It would be advisable to purchase a USB pen drive and copy your important data on to that rather than try to install a second hard drive. As previously mentioned the main hard drive seems to be deteriorating and there may be problems trying to install a second hard drive.

What you have suggested should work however it is not advisable.(?)

Yours sincerely

Dale Allison │ Customer Support │ Evesham Technology "

I have asked for further clarification about 10minutes ago, but I value your input – pen or secondary drive? If the original drive is going bad I might find that the pen will not be recognised and waste some more cash.

Thanks again
Alan
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LenHewitt
Jul 18, 2006
Alan,

That sound like Evesham T/S ! I really do not know where they get them from!

Point is, you are likely going to need a new drive, whether a pen drive works or not, and frankly, fitting a second drive is not going to make the primary HDD any more likely to catastrophically fail than it already is (unless you jar it or shake it whilst fitting the other one!).

What you could do is fit a second drive as a slave. Partition into two drives, one of which (the primary partition) will eventually become your system drive.

Copy as much data as possible from the suspect drive to the 2nd partition of the new drive. Then swap the jumpers over so the new drive is master and the existing drive the slave, install the O/S to the primary partition of the new drive.
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alan_high
Jul 18, 2006
Thanks Len

But do tell me if I’m being a pain in the rear, I’m sure you have more important things to do.

All sounds good to me, day off tomorrow so I’ll start to hunt for new drives and look up some links about doing the partition bit must be some info on Evesham.

I can understand why some friends of mine just scrapped their pc and started afresh, maybe I’ll look at that option as well and maybe salvage some bits from mine, the bits that might be worth saving from the original £2k spent on a 16x10x32 cd rw / 16xdvd rom / 512ddr / Athlonxp1900/Audigy sound card & nvidia gef3 Ti200 might not be worth it.

Alan
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LenHewitt
Jul 19, 2006
Alan,

It’s been so long since I ran Win98, that I am reluctant to give any guidance on partioning under Win98 – IIRC you needed to boot into DOS and run FDISK from the command prompt.
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Bob Levine
Jul 19, 2006
Either that or something like Partion Magic. But I remember it being a high and mighty PITA. It’s so easy with XP that I had forgotten what a pain it was before Win2K came along.

Bob
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alan_high
Jul 20, 2006
Thanks Len & Robert,

For your advice and yes Robert it is a pain but I don’t like xp, maybe vista will be better?? I’d swop to a mc if I could get all my programs to work..

For you info Len this is today reply from Evesham regarding why they thought adding drive would be problematic.

Dear Alan

Thank you for your e-mail of 18th July

Dale suggested a USB pen drive simply because it’s easier rather than any inherent problem with fitting a second hard drive.

What’s not advisable is your plan of cutting and pasting. You should back up your data files and then replace the Drive and install Windows and other files from new.
Yours sincerely
Andrew Goldsby │ Customer Support │ Evesham Technology
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Bob Levine
Jul 20, 2006
Don’t like XP? If you set it up as classic Windows you’ll have a hardtime telling the difference.

Bob
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alan_high
Jul 20, 2006
Hi Bob,

It’s not that I totally dislike xp but lots of my friends have problems with reinstalling after a crash and with only a cough cough 56k modem the downloads would take forever, plus all the security holes mentioned, drain on system resources etc . I know win2k might be old but for me I think it might be a solution, supports cs2 which I couldn’t upgrade to on 98se and most bugs ironed out, shame they are stopping support considering a fair % of the world still use 98-2k and we all have different needs for our pc’s, for me I don’t currently need the latest graphic cards for rendering or gb’s of memory and until recently run the full abobe + macromedia suites at the same time without the system slowing to a snails pace IMO.

I suppose I intially hoped that the fat error listed might be linked to just one file or program that I could just delete or somehow lock to a portion of the drive and continue using the remainder but it appears not to be the case. Time to get out a short screwdriver!! why do they always make only one side of the case open so you have to fiddle around at arms length, hmm maybe thats just Amersham..

Alan

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