I'm just about to go pick up a new PC - what are my chances of being able to take the Win2k HDD out of my current PC, and stick it in the new one (to avoid reinstalling Win2k)?

Pretty good.

Worked for me. Youll have to sit there a while as it detects the new hardware. It worked for me with ME, and 2k is far more stable so...

well ive found if u use the same m/b ur usually pretty right tho that was with win 98 not sure about 2k

sif you wouldnt want a fresh install of windows for a new computer

but it should work..

new mobo = fresh install
i always do it

5 hours later and a corrupted hard disk, I guess I'll do just that

sif I'm having a good day

i've gone from a p233 to a celeron 366 before without reinstall

that was win98 though

apparently ducker had some trouble when he got his new cpu/mobo

yeh, I think when I put it in, it decided to f*** my 30gig HDD. Now its rife with bad sectores and I can't install anything on it. So I've dug around and found an old 4 gig that I'm trying to set up to make sure its not the new PC itself.

I hate computers.

Windows 2000 is king o/s besides linux but your a bit dareing doing that

im not surprised your having problems though, did that at work as a test and well,. .... lets say we were installing again =o)

and as for the I Hte Computers bit, once you work with them everyday and have clients ringing up with stupid questions ( Which way does the cdrom go?....f***) you will get over it :P

WINDOWS 2000 ROCKS - ill tell youwant win2001 is like tommorow

trog: you should try doing a low-level format on that 30 gig drive, it should be OK then..

isnt low level format for ancient hdds?

but i spose anything is worth a shot when its borken


did you put your 30g hdd in an old box do make sure you didnt kill it?

i dunno if its worth mentioning but i have a hard drive that used to have linux on it and when i formatted it for ME it s*** itself and now says every sector after about the 160mb mark is cactus. :( gives me a bsod and says "cant copy to ..."

wish i could be of more help :/

keep us updated trog

no you can low lever format utilities from most hdd manufacturers web sites i know fore sure quantum and seagate have them on their sites.
it should work after u low level it

man i wish i'd seen this earlier...

NO TROG - DON'T EVER f***ING DO THAT!
it needed a clean install

you live - you learn.

hope your 30 reinstalls ok.
btw... what kind of drive do you run?

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true that - you know when a Qgl admin loses their hdd, the community loses a part of it's infamous history :P

btw peoples - for any of yew who try a new pc with a old hd and windows nt, be sure to ghost a copy of your data before experimenting with your new box of slaw.

btw... anyone who needs a hand doing this icq me :)
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IBM Deskstar 30gig
Can't find any low-lev utils for it - sob.

s*** hey
i got the IBM desktar 46.1Gb (45) and it works fine
must just be one of those things where some die some don't
is it new?

if the drive sounds like it's "wheezing" it is beyond repair, as the motor is up the proverbial Trog.

:(

Ya gravel sound is bad :).

usually when windows installs, it sets part of it's kernal up for the chipset u got in ur computer, so if ur changing processor or mobo, then always do a fresh install

also NEVER partition a 30Gb hdd as a single 30Gb partiton, some seriously funky s*** goes on then, i reccomend 2x 15Gb partitions.

if u cant get it to work then fdisk it into 2 partitions and then type this command
fdisk /mbr
then format both partitions b4 installing win2k

hope that helps

I have got a IBM DeskStar before QGL, 30g/7200rmp one. I took it along to qgl, and FDisk/Formatted it so i could dump some files on to it, it wasnt even in my hands for 24 hours and it didnt work for some reason, each time i rebooted it would loose all partition info again, so i tired it in a firends machine, same problem, but when i removed all hdd's and left it as the master it seamed to format and STAY formatted, it never lost any partition table info.

all i know, is if it f***es up again im going to take it back. i wish i could find the reciept to my 8x burner that doesnt go faster than 2x :)

Trog: go to this page, on IBMs website. It has progs and utils of all kinds.. Apparently it helped one person I know with his drive the same as yours.

The low level format util is "wipe" on that site, but I really don't recomment using that.. I've heard it can do some bad things to the Bad Sector "unit" on the hdd.

Thanks Messiah; I'd actually already found that page and downloaded the Drive Fitness Test thing. That seemed to fix all the bad sector problems (although now I'm suss about the drive in general, sigh).

Still no go though. Back to the shop it goes!

Thanks to everyone that tried to help, I'll keep you updated (if I ever get back online again)