
I hate working with a crippled system. I've currently got 3 systems that I'm working on. One simply needs to have a back-up restored to it, but can't do that right now. Why? Because the drive from the second system is plugged in as a secondary drive so we can pull a back-up off of it and that's going to take a while. The third system seemed to be working fine yesterday when we left, but when I came in this morning it was frozen. Reboot brought it up fine, but now we're trying to test the drive. Hitachi created an ISO file to make a bootable CD that should work for testing the drive, but I had to wait for someone else to make the CD because the PC I'm at at work does not have a CDRW in it. When the program runs, it hangs on the CD drive running the program and errors out. My guess is that despite there being and ISO that should work from a CD, the program is looking for the IDE drives to be idle and the program to be running from a floppy drive. Downloaded the floppy version of the program, but can't do anything about that one either. Why? My PC doesn't have a floppy drive at all, so again, I'm stuck waiting on someone else. To make things worse, we do not appear to have any floppy disks here. Will have to see if I have any that can be used for this when I go home at lunch.
So, once again, I'm stuck at work in a complete and total holding pattern... Hate this. Would rather have something to work on...sigh...