GRUB ERROR 17 help!!!!

[Leonard]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 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
>
>

Karl, did you use insecticide for bugs on your 5 yr or older HDDs.
Always works for me-:o)

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Leonard
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