GRUB ERROR 17 help!!!!
Karl F. Larsen
klarsen1 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 21 15:16:15 UTC 2009
NoOp wrote:
> On 11/20/2009 07:03 PM, John Heinen wrote:
>> NoOp wrote:
> ...
>>> John is: 1) reviving a post of his from May 2009, and 2) is now
>>> complaining about "error 21".
>>>
>>> Note to John: start a new thread as this seems to be an *new* issue.
>>> Further, I suspect that your system has changed since May 2009, so when
>>> you do start a new thread, explain the details in full (you know the drill).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> It is all taking care of. What I learned ,though, is not to fool around
>> with the hard drives, that is adding ( internal) an extra or second hard
>> drive. Windows bios, at times, seems to go wild on this, sometimes it
>> works sometimes it doesn't, It could also be that I /have been using
>> some older drives. Thank you, John H/
>>
>
> John, I add/swap hard drives all the time. My _newest_ hard drives are
> 40Gb 5 year old drives pulled out of old recycled computers.
>
>
My experience with 5 year old Hard Drives are they are full
of bugs. Older are even worse. If you can't get a new Hard
Drive for some reason, then expect trouble!
73 Karl
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