Re: Whis I hadnt started this!

"Gazwad" <> wrote in message
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> archierob <>, the stumpy-panhandler and
> unrufflable eye doctor who likes inventive jizz whizzin' with salmon,
> and whose partner is a bad-girl with an unnatural mushy mushy, wrote in
> <ZsEtj.960$>:
>> Bought caddy. Took out old 40GB drive which was not connected out of
>> computer with the intention of putting it in the caddy, also
>> disconnected IDE cables to get at things. Reconnected the 160 GB hard
>> drive and it cant be found and although Windows starts it just
>> crashes. Put the 160 GB in the caddy and sure enough it can be seen.
>> The old 40GB is back in and as I write this boots up no problem.
>> Thought I a repair install, Windows goes through the prelims and
>> then - cant find any hard drive mate!
>> The HD is set as the secondary master.
>>
>> Got a feeling this is a bios or HD drive number thing but out of my
>> depth here.
>>
>> Any help very much appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>
I also whis you haden't.....
> Pretend for one moment that nobody here has ever seen your computer, now
> read through what you wrote and see if there are any relevant details you
> might like to add.
>
> Otherwise use all new cables and check you've not used cable select
> anywhere
> instead of master or slave as intended.
>
>
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> For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
> in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
> it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
> are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
> impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
> how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
> bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
> of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
> dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
> is but a dream within a dream.
>