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TRAIN SAID SOMETHING...
now, ghosting over a partition to partition should work, in NORMAL circumstances.
goose will easily see the difference between the non-dos and the fat32 type partitions.
BUT, I am thinking of an interesting thing to try nonetheless.
(because of the thing train said...)
what if...
what if goose can restore to the drive on highpoint (with the other drive disconnected, out of the loop)
and then, what if he reconnects it, and does an XCOPY32 (or ghost) from older to fresh restore on highpoint, overwriting the stuff in there..
the new drive will have bomide
it will be compaq-systemised
and then it can get the configuration and programs written over it
so what if this would work?
Hell, I forgot about this bomide partition.
and I did not dare suggest drive to drive ghosting because the olde system is on "32GB limited"...
(I'm afraid it would make a 32GB disk of the other, see...)
but, once the bomide is on that new disk on the highpoint, you should be able to clone over the partitions somehow.
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noticed something else today
maxblast
advanced,
whatdouya know, it has the feature to copy over in there as well.
thus, I think the NON advanced is like a "wizard", and it does not present you this option twice (I think it stores settings, as it wants to write to floppy at one point).
I noticed this today, on a drive I had already blasted for ME.
btw, funny that, with an ME floppy it won't copy the system to disk, yet it first asks (cuz it don't know what you will shove in))
anyway, I saw the option to copy partitions in advanced screens.
so, goose, you have a lot of thinking, and plenty options
the xcopy32 string I use to copy stuff is this one
xcopy32 [letter]:\*.* [letter]:\ /i /h /k /r /e /y /c
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The problem is his original HDD is kaputt.
So, he replaced it with a 40GB WD. Used the Compaq stuff and got it to install. Mine would not. Boy it refused with all kinds of crazy statements. Which tells me GG1 has the bomide on his cd instead of the harddrive. As they told me it would be on later restore cd's in writing. So, no 2nd HDD.
I still want to replace that 4400rpm harddrive with a 7200 one. But leave the Compaq stuff on for helping other people and keep peace in the household https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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GG1,
I guess one question I forgot to ask was if you boot from a floppy, can you view and read files/directories on the disk (when on the ultra card)? Or is it just that a bootable os cannot be found? What does and FDISK of the disk show?
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Been using Google to do some searching on this issue. Went to MS Knowledge Base, Maxtor, and Western Digital but found nothing much less a procedure.
The best information I have gotten so far is right here on our Delta Thread. That comes from people with not only knowledge bookwise but hands on experience to boot.
DrMDJ, Just tried the normal installation procedure and have done no hands on since I did not want to foul up a working computer by trying different things. Thought I would wait on this until BT was built and then come back on this. That way I have communications with you all. When I lost the HD and could not communicate except by phone, I decided I did not want it to happen again.
To answer your questen No OS is found.
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Have any of you tried taking a heatsink and fan and mounting another fan directly on top of the fan already mounted to the heatsink? can this work? would it provide more or less cooling? Pondering lots of questions as I am going to a major overclocking experiment with the new board I ordered and a celeron 333 and 366 cpus......I will have lots of questions when the new items come in early next week....who out there has experiences good or bad with overclocking. I promise I will try to stick to the topic at hand once BT is being built but I am trying to keep busy until Goose gets his parts gets started...I am very interested in seeing how this goes for a first timer.
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train, goose,
see the edit above.
train sparked it, and I forgot to explain why I suddelny came up with the idea.
have put ghosting option in there as well.
dangit, I plumb forgot about this bomide.
I reckon the workaround should work?
(as long as the bios is set to boot from cdrom, it should be possible to do the restore onto highpoint. highpoint needs no drivers for DOS, see.
(oakcdrom wont see no CDromdrive on a highpoint, strange, but that's mscdex for ya)
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consider the arodynamics in a turbine.
(of which I know diddly)
I mean, where is the higher airflow when you look right behind a fan?
at the axle?
at the rim?
a concorde turbine has 60 to 1 compression...
how is that done?
I would think that a duct leading fresh air from a casefan to the CPU fan would greatly help the efficency of the CPU fan.
but if they's mounted on top of one another, the turbulence may decrease efficiency of the CPU high speed fan.
I said MAY...
I dunno.
just thinking out loud.
hmmm, I have seen a TITAN aluminium hard drive kooling "tray" where two identical (tiny) fans are in front, right behind one another. The fan housing itself acts like a small duct.
I'd still do ducting...
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well I will admit to a little stupidity when I was just learning about the inside of computers...I took a vacuum cleaner hose and stuck it inside of the box to suck out the dust and cobwebs and got it close to the cpu fan and it made the fan spin alot faster with a higher pitch whine....was wondering if the 2 cpu fans on top of each other either oriented the same way or opposite might have a positive airflow effect...
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by ducting do you mean some sort of hose from the intake fan attached to the top of the hsf?
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They make HSF with the dual fans stacked like that. Not to well rated.
The fan housing is what forms the duct in this case. So, when you stack them you form a duct for the air to flow through.
Never figured it out mathamatically, but theory says stacking should add to the air flow. But practice has shown that to not to true. The pitch of the blades and rpm are the more important components.
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sarrkazztic,
I think you'll find this of interest. There are subtleties in stacking.
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GG1,
If you want to wait (until BT is done) that's fine. Seeing what an FDISK (just looking not changing anything) and a simple DIR against the drive would be worthwhile info. Neither would be destructive.
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Good Morning All,
DrMDJ, I don't mind checking things and the like. The main concern I had was doing something myself due to my lack of knowledge in this area and knocking my computer down.
I feel very comfortable following the suggestions that you all are giving me. And that keeps me learning which is what I need.
More problems here, so I better get to it. Later https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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'kaz,
I've been doing some experimenting with a standard flex hose for fx. bathroom ventilators. I mounted the hose to a front intake fan and led the other end to blow across the CPU fan. It DID give me a few degrees lower CPU temperature but not enough to help me with my actual problem then. Besides, it didn't really make the inside of the machine more accessible... https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
With respect to you double fan question - with two fans mounted, the fan with the lower capacity will make up a bottleneck for the other. If both fans have equal capacity you will get as much airflow as one fan by itself.
That is why you'll find parallel mounted twin fans (like on the old slot1 processor coolers) but not stacked fans - it just won't give you anything to stack them. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Thanks Jaak..It was just an idea...I had an extra cpu fan and thought it might work..I will just buy a delta fan to put on the coolermaster heatsink that I have...if the temp is too high when I start my Overclocking.
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For those of us that are COMPAQ illiterate what is BOMIDE...I have heard of some computers that have a portion of the bios that resides on the harddrive is this what you are talking about? I have only worked on 1 compaq before it is my neighbors and I did not like it very much....it is a desktop model and not much room for my oversized hands and seems to be very very proprietary
