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SX-200 ICP Hard Drive
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Can't hurt to try.
The problem might be in finding an IDE drive that is small enough to be in the same realm as the failed one.
Plug IDE in, insert the Install Flash card and see what happens. I'm pretty sure the flash card will format the hard drive.
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Occam's Razor - All things being equal, the simplest solution is the right one.
The problem might be in finding an IDE drive that is small enough to be in the same realm as the failed one.
Plug IDE in, insert the Install Flash card and see what happens. I'm pretty sure the flash card will format the hard drive.
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Occam's Razor - All things being equal, the simplest solution is the right one.
This something I've wondered about to. I believe your stock HD is a maxtor *shudder* 40 gig.
There is a free nix based HD cloner called g4u. If your drive is still readable I'd be interested in knowing if you try to clone it with this, what the outcome would be.
As an aside, I know Mitel goes postal if you use a non Mitel HD.
Jim
There is a free nix based HD cloner called g4u. If your drive is still readable I'd be interested in knowing if you try to clone it with this, what the outcome would be.
As an aside, I know Mitel goes postal if you use a non Mitel HD.
Jim
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Thanks, everyone. kwbMitel was right. I just replaced the drive with a blank 40 gig I got at a used computer store. It was the only place I could find something that small. Unfortunately, all they had were Maxtor's exactly like the piece of junk that was in the ICP and failed after only two years.
Then I used the software program on the CDROM to create a compact flash card using the "Initial Installation" setup. I did find that if you use a new flash card, you want to format it with Windows before copying the files or the ICP won't like it.
I put the flash card in and restarted the system. I watched via the maintenance port to see what happened. The installation program created and formatted the partitions it needed and then copied all the files over and restarted. Booted up and ran just fine.
I tried to read the old drive but my PC didn't even see it was present.
Thought about cloning the new drive but getting the system back up and running was so easy that it didn't seem worth the trouble.
Then I used the software program on the CDROM to create a compact flash card using the "Initial Installation" setup. I did find that if you use a new flash card, you want to format it with Windows before copying the files or the ICP won't like it.
I put the flash card in and restarted the system. I watched via the maintenance port to see what happened. The installation program created and formatted the partitions it needed and then copied all the files over and restarted. Booted up and ran just fine.
I tried to read the old drive but my PC didn't even see it was present.
Thought about cloning the new drive but getting the system back up and running was so easy that it didn't seem worth the trouble.
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