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hard drive S.O.S
Name: Jackie Date: September 13, 1999 at 08:34:50 Pacific
Comment:
I put a new hard drive in my computor about 8 months ago. There was nothing wrong with the old hard drive, it just didn't have enough space & I wanted to upgrade. Just recently the "new" hard drive dumped all the files!?! Why I have no idea. So I tried the "slave drive" thing, but all I keep getting is a blue screen saying the "system is busy" All I want is to have my "new" hard drive working agian. And it took me forever to even get past the DOS screen ( that was all the "new" hard drive would do after dumping the files. And I'm not even sure if I have gotten the "old" files from the "old" hard drive to the "new" hard drive, or if I'm doing it right!! S.O.S. please any help would be great!!!
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