John Colby
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Jul 10 14:33:13 CDT 2003
Drew, I do exactly that as well with my computers, put in a new one and then add back in the old HD as drive D: (or whatever). The data is there and no "you deleted that" stuff. In the case of my Laptop I have always just xcopied the entire disk structure off to my desktop's hard disk. Since it was only 3.5 GB that worked well enough. Start the copy and go to bed. Fortunately in this case I had reformatted / re-installed a few months ago in a desperate attempt to get a little more stuff crammed in, so there really is nothing left on the old drive that is critical. John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Drew Wutka Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:23 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: joy in muddville Another little friendly tip. They have USB connection devices that allow you to connect a laptop IDE drive to your computer. Years ago, when I first started working here at Marlow Industries, we were upgrading machines quite frequently. When I upgraded a desktop, I would take the hard drive out of the old machine, setup the new machine, then plug the old hard drive into a spare IDE cable. If there was room, I would just leave it in there, if there wasn't, I would just copy the contents to the new hard drive, and let the user sort out what they wanted to keep or not. The problem I ran into was that Laptops don't have spare IDE ports, so I couldn't do that with laptop drives. What I ended up doing was transferring data through the NIC to my PC, installing the upgrade, then transfering the databack (unless it was a new laptop, then I just did a direct transfer.) So years ago we talked to our supplier, about getting an IDE laptop drive 'reader'. We actually got a bid for about 5 grand to build one, but we held off on that. A few months ago I was at Fryes, and they now sell exactly what we were looking for for about $60. We bought one about 2 months ago, and it works absolutely wonderfully. Drew -----Original Message----- From: John Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:01 PM To: AccessD Subject: [AccessD] OT: joy in muddville I received my new 40gb hard disk for my laptop today. The laptop I was discussing buying in Ireland many years ago came with a 3.5 gb hard disk, and replacement drives have always been waaaay expensive. I discovered that the prices have dropped radically now and I found a 40g drive for $108 delivered, from www.Newegg.com (highly recommended online computer store BTW). Formatting now, Win2K to install shortly! Yeaaaaa! John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com