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To: mr.mark who wrote (19001)	4/21/2001 2:47:17 AM
From: Ed Forrest	Respond to of 110631

*** congrats on the 19k grub, ed! *** Mark Thanks,to be truthful I didn't even notice. Think I get anything on eBay for it? :) Ed

To: mr.mark who wrote (19001)	4/21/2001 7:08:11 PM
From: Martin E. Frankel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

Mr. Mark... somebody... anybody?? I have an elusive problem with one of my hard drives. Using Win98 SE and ultra wide SCSI. Originally had only one hard drive... a Seagate 10000RPM Cheetah (only 4.1Gig). I suddenly started getting error messages... "can't write to hard drive" and then I couldn't even get it to reboot. Kept the Seagate drive and had a second drive (a Quantum 3.1Gig UW SCSI) added and formatted both drives using the Adaptec SCSI utility to first low level format and verify both drives and then used DOS fdisk and formatted both drives... making the slower Quantum my C: drive and the Seagate my D: drive. The Quantum runs fine, but is very slow. I ran ScanDisc and Norton DiskDoctor in thorough mode on both disks with 3 complete passes. They were both error free except for one bad sector on the Seagate which shows it was blocked. Now for the question! Is it possible to copy the contents from my C: drive (the Quantum) to my D: drive (the Seagate Cheetah) and then, in setup, change the boot hard drive to the Seagate... without removing the contents from the C: drive just in case? There is a place in "Setup" to change the boot drive to the Seagate HD which is now my D: drive, but can I just change that and will it boot? If so... how do I copy over the entire C: drive (the Quantum) to the D: drive (the Seagate)? I have a DAT tape backup with Seagate Backup Exec software, but I don't know if I can restore a C: drive to a D: drive. Sorry for being so long-winded, but hopefully one of our resident gurus will have the answer. I still can't understand why the Seagate constantly came up with the "Can't write to hard drive" message and yet DiskDoctor and ScanDisk both do read/write tests when in thorough mode... I think. Many thanks again for any suggestions... and also for having a great thread with a great group of people. Marty