[thelist] [OT] Ultra ATA nightmare

[Joshua Olson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Schaefer
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 10:00 PM
>
> <my suggestion>
>
> Take it back to the store. Pay the guy there $50 to "make the problem go
> away" by having him/her install Windows. If the drive is faulty, then they
> can replace it.

Good advice.  Thankfully, I was being paid hourly to struggle through it.
Blew more than my budget on just the HW install, unfortunately.  The problem
ended up being that the BIOS couldn't handle the big size of the drive.  I
took the drive back, bought one half the size, and it went perfectly (it
helped that I had the latest Promise Ultra100 drivers on floppy, of course).
The 15% restocking fee on the other drive is a bummer, but par for the
course, I guess.

Not the most productive way to spent a day for sure... but at least I am
reminded that I should stay out of the hardware side of things.  :-)

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