[SECC] Computer Question

[ku8e at bellsouth.net]

Couldn't you just use a boot disk from the a: drive and then try to read the files on the hard drive after that ???
> 
> From: "Macie, Gordon" <GMacie at innotrac.com>
> Date: 2004/01/02 Fri AM 09:38:03 EST
> To: "'Gary McConville'" <wb4sq at yahoo.com>, 
> 	Greg Richard <k4no at mchsi.com>,  secc <secc at contesting.com>
> Subject: RE: [SECC] Computer Question
> 
> Sounds like the best plan to me.. Otherwise you may inherit other problems
> as well.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary McConville [mailto:wb4sq at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 9:35 AM
> To: Greg Richard; secc
> Subject: Re: [SECC] Computer Question
> 
> 
> Greg,
> 
> Its looking for hardware thats different from the
> other pc.  You'll probably have to format the hard
> drive, load the OS & applications from scratch.
> 
> Gary - WB4SQ
> 
> --- Greg Richard <k4no at mchsi.com> wrote:
> > I have been working to clean up the shack and I have
> > a old 486 computer with a dead hard drive.  I put
> > another hard drive in the computer and it will now
> > start to boot up.
> > I don't know what is on this other hard drive and
> > not sure how I find out. It was given to me with
> > another computer and I have not had need to use it
> > til now.
> > When the computer with the new hard drive boots up,
> > it doesn't get me to a C prompt.  It hangs up before
> > getting there. 
> > 
> >  What do I need to change to get this computer
> > working again?  Is it the AutoExec.bat file. when
> > the computer boots up or ??
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Greg K4NO
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