[windows2000] Re: NTDETECT Fails
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:47:07 +0200
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:41:46 -0700, Jennifer Hooper wrote:
>I have NO idea. This server is a dino that hasn't been touched in 2+ years.
>I would like to try taking drives out of it, but I don't have anywhere to
>put them. I'm gonna see what I can come up with... We have no spares
>anywhere (yet)... Well, unless I want to drive to Poway and pull 'em out of
>storage... May be my only option.
>
>I can see the drives in Fdisk, the SCSI utils, and they are detected on
>boot. But I get invalid drive specification when trying to access it. I'm
>going to actually try making some NT4 boot disks if I can't get too much
>further. *SIGH* Just to prove to myself that the drive(s) are dead.
Over the years I've to appreciate those external plastic boxes you
can install a 5,25" or 3,5" drive in it (complete with a built-in
PSU) and then attach a usb-cable to it and plug it into almost any
computer available with usb-capabilities to test it, or save data
from it.
I have two boxes, one for scsi and one for ide-drives. The scsi-box
is based on an old legacy 2x scsi cdrom I slaughtered and put a 9GB
scsi hd in it. For the connection to a computer for testing I
bought an adaptec usb-exchange, that converts scsi to usb1. Nifty,
if I might say so. The other box is a usb2-capable external than
handles the ide-drives. Both were cheap compared to their
usability.
You might want to look into this for future purposes, since you
don't actually have to dissasemble a working computer to install
and test any failing hd or whatever storage.
The adaptec solution:
>http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&cat=%2FProducts%2FUSBXchange&prodkey=USBXchange
The ide solution (in swedish, but you get an idea what's it all
about):
>http://www.dustin.se/default.asp?ORIGIN=Shopping/ProductDetail.asp?PID=5010048478
HTH.
BW,
Sorin
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