Put Back Together Again
April 26, 2006
Last night I caved in to the BIOS gods and excommunicated our new shiny SATA hard drive into Expensive Paperweight Status.
The newer IDE hard drive I just picked up at the geek store? Works great.
While I was getting the computer up and running again, the skies outside decided to snow. Yes, snow! Just in case we forgot that we live in Alaska! Almost May and it dropped below freezing last night; I guess I should just be thankful it didn't get below zero.
Now that the computer no longer has its entrails strewn across our apartment we can once again resume ignoring nature in favor of the internets. Thank goodness.
So, uh, anyone interested in a new 250 GB SATA hard drive? Barely used, great condition.
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While I'm sure you're not going to be a huge fan of the suggestion, there is one other option.
You could pick up a PCI SATA interface card. They lie to your BIOS and pretend to be a smaller drive.
The problem isn't the size of the drive, but that the BIOS won't boot to the SATA interface. And even when it boots to an IDE drive, Windows still won't recognize the SATA drive. And I've already bought a new IDE drive anyway.
Can I stuff it into my ME tower?
No.
John, darling, you need to shoot that thing. Seriously. Mail it to Fairbanks and I'll do it with B's 12 gauge with some slugs so I can hit it more than once.
Can I help?
Nah, looks like the power outage we had last night fried something real good. I'm ready to denounce computers all together. But thanks, Joat.