From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, June 3, 2014 11:23:00 AM UTC-4, A. Tina Hall wrote:   
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   > > A. Tina Hall wrote:   
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   > >> (am in book 7b now - 7 got too big to fit onto the backup floppy   
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   > >> along with the notes files when I was still writing on the old   
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   > >> computer and doing floppy drive backups).   
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   > > If this computer is i486 or Pentium I or II and has a USB 1.1 or 2   
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   > > port in the back of it, and you are using Windows 98 as the operating   
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   > > system,   
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   > I plugged in the windoze drive in the old computer that's normally never     
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   > connected and put the directory onto an USB to get the stories to the     
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   > new computer (plus pretty much everything else, because the usually used     
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   > harddrives and partitions are added up less than the 8GB USB stick ).   
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   > But no, the writing was done on OS/2 Systemeditor. (And the D: drive     
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   > booted DOS.) Only reason I rarely boot that anymore is because something     
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   > in it (one drive I think) is making a constant high pitched noise. I     
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   > should just put them into the IDE-to-USB thing I got for the new     
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   > computer, make backups, find out which is making the noise, and sort     
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   > them out.   
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   I think you must know this....   
   When a hard drive is making a grinding noise, it is the platens scraping the   
   disks as they spin.  This is a mechanical problem.  Other continuous noises   
   may be the same or a similar problem, maybe the bearings in the motor that   
   turns the disk is wearing    
   out.  The hard drive will die soon, its disks will no longer turn, and there   
   will be no software solution that can access the data on it.  Copy all data   
   off it before it dies, remove it from your computer, and write "NFG" on its   
   case with a Sharpie pen    
   so nobody reinstalls it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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