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linderman:

A) do you need data off these drives ?
No, I had previously backed up the W2K drive fearing the worst and imaged XP to the external drive..

B) do you have acess to a computer that works without involving the WD drives ???
I have an older HP with whatever they used, it ME as an OS, and I can use a computer with Vista as the OS. But I could not install one of the drives on it. And of course the primary slave drive is up and running. I am only trying to get the master drive up and working with out the error message on it.

C) you need to upgrade your windows OS cd or floppies to service pack 2 or later for the Win XP version and the Win2k needs Service pack 4 / then you can get by the 137 gig OS barrier >>>>> we can tell you how to accomplish this task with slipstreaming if you have access to a cd rom or dvd rom drive, blank disks and a burning program ?

I have service pack 4 on the W2K. And is loaded on its drive and working OK now. Since it is on a 40 gig drive it is fully loaded on. W2K is already good to go.

The XP Pro has service pack 2 and is was up to date a month ago, I have been down that long on that computer. Although I had it up and running good for about 3 days then I had to play with the Acronis Disk Director. When I finished it was gone from the drive.

but as I said I have the full image XP Pro on my external back up drive and can move it over if and when I get the 200 gig drive working. I have access to a CD ROM, DVD ROM drive and a burning program for either.


D) I highly suggest a plan of data back-up with images to an external drive / then wipe and erase the drive / then restore the image .

The XP OS is gone. No data there on the 200 gig drive. But the image is waiting to be restored.

my favorite image program (free one) is drive image XML
http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm
Thanks I will try it. And I now have it on Vista.

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