On 02/02/2017 03:10 AM, Auric__ wrote:
98 Guy wrote:

Why people get fixated on ancient, lame hardware is a mystery.

You say that in a group dedicated to an OS that's more than 18 years old.


That's what I was about to say, sheesh. I noticed this in other threads
while I was researching before posting. Tends to try helping at first
and then-- bam-- what the f do you want to do this for. Really nice way
to keep people wanting to come back to the group.

Just for the record, I had been using this old laptop with some ancient
software (no longer available) to do some data logging. I *do* have
several modern laptops and PC's with Win 7 and higher, but when the
Toshiba Satellite 490's hard drive went out and I replaced it, I was
having the initial issues I posted. I certainly don't want to dedicate
one of my modern laptops for the data logging task if I can keep the old
one going and a job it has done for the past 8 years. So that's the
reason, 98 Guy, I wanted to get it going again. Originally it had like
a 4 GB HD, but I had researched this group and came across a post where
some cheap, Chinese Hitachi HD were available so I ordered one. Problem
was that the laptop would only recognize the first 7.? GB and not the
rest. It's certainly not essential to be able to use the rest as the
former drive had done fine all these years, but it would have been nice
to be able to utilize the drive.

Will