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Next week happened faster than I'd thought. I now have a 6.4 gig HD in my hot little hands, and for good measure I removed extra screws from the old broken floppy and CD drives, so I don't have to worry about the stripped one. (DX was right, that disconnecting the little attachment doohickeys made it easier to open the side=panel. The "taking stuff apart" part is actually kind of fun, and except for the HD itself, I can break all this stuff with no problem. The installation, NSM.)
Now the question is, how do I install the old HD into the new PC without turning off the new PC, so I can follow instructions??
What, you mean I should be printing out the instructions DX linked to? (My printer is in the basement.) It might be wise if I thought of these things before I started, huh?
for good measure I removed extra screws from the old broken floppy and CD drives, so I don't have to worry about the stripped one
Heh, she's cannibalizing old computer parts. One of us! One of us!
Is it wrong that I'm kinda turned on by this discussion?
Heh, she's cannibalizing old computer parts. One of us! One of us!
Suddenly, I find myself with a whole new theory about where the Reavers came from.
Heh, she's cannibalizing old computer parts. One of us! One of us!
Suddenly, I find myself with a whole new theory about where the Reavers came from.
Radio Shack?
That is cool. At work I have two monitors, so I'm used to moving the mouse between them. Sometimes I bring my iBook with me and set it next to the two monitors. I often find myself trying to mouse over from a PC monitor to the iBook screen. I've thought that it would be cool if I could actually do that, but I considered it unlikely that it would be made doable.
If I get some spare time I'll have to try this.
Another handy thing you can do is to get an external drive enclosure (USB or Firewire if you have it.) and put your old HD in that and plug it into a usb port.
I often find myself trying to mouse over from a PC monitor to the iBook screen.
During my hard drive nastiness recently, I would use my gf's iBook to surf the net while working on rehabilitating my PC, and I would frequently get confused and irritated when a pointer wasn't working or a keyboard command was not responding, before finally realizing I was attempting said commands on the wrong input device.
It would sometimes even take me quite a while to figure out the the mouse could not make the iBook pointer work, or that the track pad wasn't connected to the PC.
