Dell XPS R450 To The Graveyard
R.I.P.
Working on a buddy’s Dell XPS R450 with Windows ME loaded. The last time it had a successful boot was probably two years ago. Could not boot from CD either. I think there was a motherboard failure.
Gave him the bad news. Time to send it to the graveyard.
Took out the 13 Gigabyte Hard Drive (can you say bad luck), and wiped it out with a complete reformat to NTFS; going to make use of this as a complete disk image for another computer that has Windows 2000 Professional installed. It will be an emergency cloned image at this point in time. Needed a little over 10 GB with this virgin system to begin with.
Worst case scenario is, if there is ever a complete hard drive failure, this drive could be plugged in this computer, and be back up and running at this point in time, with all the current software installed and orignial documents on this computer machine. Note: It is still a good idea to use some sort of regular backups with all computers today. Here is some good information on what software to use for backups and how to upgrade your hard drive.
Can’t think of much other use for this small a hard drive though. I predict in two or three years we will have 20 GB USB memory sticks.
So, say goodbye to the old, and say hello to the new.
2 months ago