CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

CA> --8<--cut 

RJT> Any of you guys have suggestions as to how I might make
RJT> this work? 

CA> Make an ISO image of the original hard drive then copy that to the
CA> replacement drive. 

I was actually a little further along than that -- I got as far as copying
the entire contents of that one partition to another drive.  But it would't
boot.  So at that point I thought that perhaps trying an fdisk /mbr or
similar would do the trick.  Then I started running into problems with
floppies,  and similar nonsense.  Eventually it just got to the point where
I decided that I didn't need those diagnostics that badly,  and I proceeded
from there to a linux install that's mostly complete.

I just need to actually mount the HD after removing the original one,  see
what ram I have to add some more if possible,  and finish up on the
software side,  like installing firefox and doing whatever other tweaks I
need to do in config files.

Dunno why HP's ISO is as big as 159MB!

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