Comments | vakkotaur: Ten years, and a bit.

vakkotaur

Ten years, and a bit.

Jun 29, 2013 10:05

March 20, 2003 was the day I started using a new 120 GB IDE hard drive. That drive was what the first belgian used as long as that machine lasted. When that machine had multiple failures a fews ago, the drive was one of, if not the only, surviving piece that ran in the new belgian. The drive was replaced by a new, larger capacity (1 TB) SATA model ( Read more... )

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vakkotaur July 1 2013, 22:22:19 UTC

I tried a couple recovery tools, but the system refused to boot properly with the drive connected, even for LiveCDs. Perhaps if I had disabled SMART in the BIOS I might have had better luck. I might try that yet, but right now I gain a bit of drive space and a modern interface. It says something that newer motherboards no longer support the interface that drive uses.