Little did we know we'd run through all the Exedrin headache numbers before this was over with. The tape backup just wouldn't work. We thought of compatibility problems so went along looking for another way to transfer the data. This was the beginning of the Wild Goose Chase . A few things failed and we treated each event as a different problem at first.
Computer runs but only for a few minutes.
We suspected the hard drive and figured maybe we formatted it wrong or there was something wrong with the drive. Jon found a diagnostic program which declared the Western Digital 2.1 gig drive fit for duty, A-1. Yet the thing kept crashing. After about 45 minutes of cajoling it, I could get online, get mail and even browse, it wouldn't do anything else. Besides, I'd stopped loading software into it for obvious reasons.