Dear Sirs,
Can anyone think of any reason why an old computer would only work
with one specific hard drive in it?
I have four old machines, (Versamark Printers if you must know,) with old
PCs sitting on top of them. Number 3 had a hard drive go out. I re-imaged
a 'new unused' 250 Gig hard drive with an older image for number 3, dropped
it in and everything worked great.
These machines date back to 2007 . . and the computers on them are about
as old - Celeron processors and I believe the RAM in them was the same as
a Pentium III used. The necessary card slot is the black ISA type slot.
So I had the bright idea of making fresh ghost images of the other three
machines, and replacing the hard drives with new ones.
Machine 4 was the first one I tried . . . and it refuses to work with the
'new unused' 250 Gig drive. It refused to work with an 80 Gig, or a 40 Gig drive.
I looked at the BIOSs - all four machines have the same BIOS. The other ones
had the hard drive setting to 'Auto', number 4 wasn't. AHA, I say, I set it to
Auto like the other ones . . . . still not working.
It works fine with its original hard drive . . . will not work with any other
hard drive.
Any thoughts as to what might be wrong?
Poet.
Can anyone think of any reason why an old computer would only work
with one specific hard drive in it?
I have four old machines, (Versamark Printers if you must know,) with old
PCs sitting on top of them. Number 3 had a hard drive go out. I re-imaged
a 'new unused' 250 Gig hard drive with an older image for number 3, dropped
it in and everything worked great.
These machines date back to 2007 . . and the computers on them are about
as old - Celeron processors and I believe the RAM in them was the same as
a Pentium III used. The necessary card slot is the black ISA type slot.
So I had the bright idea of making fresh ghost images of the other three
machines, and replacing the hard drives with new ones.
Machine 4 was the first one I tried . . . and it refuses to work with the
'new unused' 250 Gig drive. It refused to work with an 80 Gig, or a 40 Gig drive.
I looked at the BIOSs - all four machines have the same BIOS. The other ones
had the hard drive setting to 'Auto', number 4 wasn't. AHA, I say, I set it to
Auto like the other ones . . . . still not working.
It works fine with its original hard drive . . . will not work with any other
hard drive.
Any thoughts as to what might be wrong?
Poet.