paul.brett
Experienced Member
I am 'upgrading' a couple of old laptops. One is a Compaq LTE5000 and the other is a Toshiba 220CS.
Compaq LTE5000 specs:
Pentium 75Mhz
8MB RAM
2GB CF Hard Drive
Windows 95
Toshiba 220CS specs:
Pentium 133Mhz
32MB RM
512MB CF Hard Drive
Windows 98SE
What I'm doing is removing the mechanical hard drives, and replacing them with IDE to CF adaptes and re-using a couple of old CF cards I have lying around.
The upgrades went well, but the problem came when I tried to transfer the data from the old drives, using an IDE to USB adapter on my modern PC. The plan was to plug the recently formatted and known booting CF cards into the multi-card reader, and then simply copy the data across. The IDE to USB adapter is not well laballed, and I managed to put the IDE connector on backwards, therefore supplying power to the wrong pins. It wouldn't be so bad if I had done it to only one drive, but in my haste, I did it to both drives before I realised what I was doing wrong.
As it is, I have done a clean install of Windows 95 to the LTE, and Windows 98SE to the Tosh. Both are working well, and I am pleased with the speed improvement. I guess it should also improve the battery life.
Rant over. *breathe*
Have a great day.
Compaq LTE5000 specs:
Pentium 75Mhz
8MB RAM
2GB CF Hard Drive
Windows 95
Toshiba 220CS specs:
Pentium 133Mhz
32MB RM
512MB CF Hard Drive
Windows 98SE
What I'm doing is removing the mechanical hard drives, and replacing them with IDE to CF adaptes and re-using a couple of old CF cards I have lying around.
The upgrades went well, but the problem came when I tried to transfer the data from the old drives, using an IDE to USB adapter on my modern PC. The plan was to plug the recently formatted and known booting CF cards into the multi-card reader, and then simply copy the data across. The IDE to USB adapter is not well laballed, and I managed to put the IDE connector on backwards, therefore supplying power to the wrong pins. It wouldn't be so bad if I had done it to only one drive, but in my haste, I did it to both drives before I realised what I was doing wrong.
As it is, I have done a clean install of Windows 95 to the LTE, and Windows 98SE to the Tosh. Both are working well, and I am pleased with the speed improvement. I guess it should also improve the battery life.
Rant over. *breathe*
Have a great day.