From: "Glenn Meadows" 

I'm going to take the HD over to the supplier of the workstation, and see
if it boots on their system, which might tell us something....or not....

--
Glenn M.


"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:41c1dd57{at}w3.nls.net...
> HD controllers can fail, too. Do you have an empty HD hanging around
> somewhere? If so, put it in and install whatever OS you had on that
> computer. Runs ok: the data in the original disk is corrupted (boot sector
/
> whatever), and a re-install is in order. Does not run: hardware failure ->
> off to the nearest parts shop.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
> (always keep a few "known good" pieces of hardware around,
because it can
> save you days of trying to fix something that isn't what's actually
broken)
>
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:41c1d75d{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Yea, tried the winnt/? and there was no option to make the boot
floppies.
> > I'll go download them now.
> >
> > Yes, latest Bios for this MB was installed sometime ago.  An identical
> > system sits right above this one (same MB, same HD's, same CDROM, same
> > ram,
> > etc, and it runs fine. .
> >
> > I removed the 2 USB2 HD's, and that of course made no difference.  I've
> > connected them to the other system so I can work for now, while I deal
> > with
> > this madness. I'm going to copy off the audio that's on the second
> > partition
> > of this HD from a working system over to one of the USB drives, and move
> > the
> > 2nd HD that has audio into the other system as well, so all audio is
there
> > while I work on getting this beast back alive again.
> >
> > Can systems boot from USB floppies?  Might be worth having one around (I
> > believe the answer is yes, as there is a bios option for that too).
> >
> > --
> > Glenn M.
>
>

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