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my sister ask me to install a 2nd hard drive in her computer (e-machine ) tonight

i open it up and i find the oem harddrive is mounted to the front of the case were we normally find a front case fan . and that there is room for one add on slot avail were a 2nd cd would be installed .
so i go and take the new drive out of the package and set it up to install in that slot .
then i find the mounting screw holes in the case dont line up . no biggie i just drill new ones . all is fine now get it mounted of course only with 2 screws seeing i cant get to the other side to to see were to drill those hole .
i undo the seagate drive it came with . to find the factory had taken a blue marker (looked like a sharpie and wrote on the drive right over the jumper settings info
go on line to seagate and find the jumper settings no problem .except for time seeing she is on dial up.and to make matters even better (AOHELL)

get it all set in and mounted . only to find my ribbon will only reach the cdr and new drive .
so i set up the new drive with jumper set to work as a slave . that didnt work so i deside to go cable select . that didnt work .ok i say i just do some part moving around - well i think i just move the cdr in the case down a slot and my new ribbon will work . WRONG found i have to strip the whole case apart to do this . (r&R power supply and then move the cdr and reinstall it all . )
desided not worth my time ,and she was not willing to buy a new case )
anyway here is what else i ran into .
the ribbon for the seagate -was a one drive only ribbin and really short !
not long enought replacement ribbin with new drive to reach between drives and then to mother board !
when i hooked new drive in with cdrwith the ribbin - the machine would not read old seagate hard drive .
just not worth my time or yours if anyone ever asks you for help and they have a E-Machine
so now i have me a new hard drive to build a 3 unit at the house
think im going to build a linix rig why not got about everything to do it

i had one and had to totally rebuild. then i wound up getting really smart and "delivering it from evil" from the second story. seriously, e-machines are not like other computers.. they are meant to be thrown away when they have outlived their usefulness. just chunk it and start with a basic system unless she really wants a cool case and the hottest stuff going.

hum, I had a similar problem with an old emac. The board would not correctly recognize anything over a 30 gig drive until i flashed the bios., but still wouldnt recognize anything over a 60 after the flash.

I heard a while back that compaq/hp wanted to buy emachines? dont know if it ever went down or not

na hp lost out or should i say won .
gateway is in bed with e-machine they wanted to get into bestbuy .

Gateway has announced plans to buy eMachines for $30 million in cash and 50 million shares of stock. This move will make gateway a strong 3rd place among PC manufacturers.

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yea, I think the last I heard it is a done deal. and the head of Emachine is suposed to now or soon be the head of both. so thats good. That and Gateway now sells AMD's

On emachines though, there High end stuff isnt bad.

Greg

Just as well you couldn't make it work. Those things have dinky little 90 - 120 watt PSUs. Probably would have died if you hooked up another drive.

I had a similar problem with a Comcrap. Basically i fixed it by hitting as many buttons as possible on boot til i hit the hotkey to search for device changes. What a POS.

Well, i cant find it but i know i seen one at best buy... it was an Emachine with a window and cathode in it! How lame.

just chunk it and start with a basic system unless she really wants a cool case and the hottest stuff going.

Well duh, why would she have an e-machine then??

I would agree with the chunk it part, based on what I have seen.