{"id":2019,"date":"2014-07-11T16:22:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T21:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2014-07-12T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T21:22:12","slug":"it-all-started-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/07\/11\/it-all-started-with\/","title":{"rendered":"It all started with &#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><dir>This week all started with a little project to make a couple of old Dell GX270&#8217;s run again. \u00a0I have three and just wanted to make one run so I could use it to connect to my downstairs HP Deskjet 5510 All-In-One printer. \u00a0I did not want to junkup my Win 7 Ultimate machine with a XP throwback driver by making the machine run in XP mode. \u00a0The Deskjet is connected to our &#8220;home&#8221; phone &#8211; which is a VOIP connection &#8211; so I can send faxes whenever is necessary. \u00a0So, I had the machine up and running pretty quick but then decided to clone an old IDE drive to use in machine #2.The #2 cloned drive went pretty smooth using WDD Acronis software. \u00a0However, the drive would not boot &#8211; I guessed the MBR was missing or corrupt &#8211; so I started down a path that has taken all week and an end is not in sight. \u00a0I am now on my third clone of the #2 drive using an iso of the Acronis backup utility. \u00a0This is happening as I write so we shall see.Needless to say, there have been hundreds of interruptions while this whole process was going on so I do not feel too bad that I cannot focus and just get the job done&#8230;Oh ya, did i forget to say that my eBay mistake arrived? \u00a0Yes, it is here and just sitting majestically and awaiting to confound me even moore :): It is a Dell Precision T5400 with x2 Xeon quad core processors, graphics card, 8Mb RAM plus dual 160MB HDD&#8217;s. \u00a0I think I will RAID them just for fun. \u00a0However, I need a legit copy of Win 7 Professional (or at least a COA number) to activate. WAITING NOW!<\/dir><dir>&#8212;-<img src=\"http:\/\/i.dell.com\/das\/xa.ashx\/global-site-design%20WEB\/d106af38-692c-4229-7ee3-9d6df4255d76\/1\/OriginalPng?id=Dell\/Product_Images\/Dell_Client_Products\/Workstations\/Fixed_Workstations\/Precision\/Precision_T5400\/hero\/desktop-precision-t5400-left-hero-504-250.psd\" alt=\"Dell Precision T5400 Workstation\" \/>-still waiting and bought a full version Win 7 Pro for the Dell Precision Server: \u00a0will it live up to expectations? \u00a0This is an experiment that may be a throwback to some older server version. \u00a0<\/dir><dir>The Dell Precision has matched 160GB drives so I could Raid 1\/0 which is what I will most likely do. \u00a0I am sort of tired of backing up to multiple machines at erratic intervals. \u00a0NOTE: While trying to restore a couple of GX270 boat anchors, I looked at a whole bunch of IDE drives I had and guess what &#8211; there is a whole bunch of unique data from 2005 &#8211; 2010 time frame that exists no where else. \u00a0OK, mpre data for the 2 TB drive I back up to. \u00a0 I did run the System Test and it passed OK but had some anomolies I did not understand with the memory valid areas. \u00a0This is a later check out but at least the machine runs, seemly, OK.<\/dir><dir><\/dir><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week all started with a little project to make a couple of old Dell GX270&#8217;s run again. \u00a0I have three and just wanted to make one run so I could use it to connect to my downstairs HP Deskjet 5510 All-In-One printer. \u00a0I did not want to junkup my Win 7 Ultimate machine with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}