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i was going to follow your post once i figured out if i needed to. you wouldnt believe the issues i had getting my original harddrive unplugged, the power cable was in there like glue! and i wanted to avoid wrestling with it if i could. least now i know the cable thats in the cdrom right now is hdc.. so i can just flip the cables, assuming they actually reach, and not try and get the cdrom screws out because i cant get the stupid things to budge at all
Ok then. Good luck with it all :)
Put it this way: If you have a go and your usual PC hard drive is not connected you are not going to majorly break anything. And you will know when you have done everything right otherwise you'll see linux complain about not finding things.
V1.4 image is going to solve all this with it's question/answer menu interface, but it's not ready for wide public release yet.
alright, switching the cables wasnt so hard as they reached.. and ive now got the hdd as hdc! yay me! um, now to do all the stuff you typed up for me :)
and done! now that was relatively painless. i guess my whole problem can be summed up by not knowing the difference between the IDE cables.. which i still dont really understand. really did think they were all the same and could be used randomly :P
LOL! spot the Windows 9x/me/xp user!!Quote:
Originally Posted by starchee
No mate. You are talking old operating systems stuff here where you have to be a tad more specific. I guess I'm lucky growing up in the DOS days - probably when you were still in nappies :p