Michael,
Thank you for your considerate reply. However, the drive in
question, when inserted into the laptop's #2 position somehow prevent
the new hd with a functioning install of Gutsy from booting. Can you
please recommend a GUI program that will allow me to manipulate the
bricked drives an
Michael, I put the previous primary hd into the #2 position of the
laptop drive bay. When I tried to boot I got a locked machine sitting
at a light blue screen. When I took the software damaged drive out and
booted from the new hd and Gutsy it came up fine. I did not change
anything about
Thank you Michael for your reply. Where the situtation is: I went to
town and bought a new WD120 2" drive and have a successful install from
the Gutsy CD that I made from the .iso download. As for access to the
hd, yes it's sitting on my brief case! This HP dv8000 laptop (amd64)
has space for t
