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I been reading some posts regarding Talk Path Hard Drive setup. I have a DHD-04, connected to a Triad system and hard drive is failing. Installed drive is a 20GB, but only a 2GB partition is used. I've been able to copy the contents of the drive to a folder on an XP system and I have a new drive. What are the steps to create new drive, copy data, and get backup and running?

thanks!

There are a few steps and requirements to set it up from scratch but the easiest way that I like to use is to clone the failing drive. That works if you can still read the failing one and also perform a couple of disk repair utilities on it. I use a USB HD adapter for this. Otherwise, you partition and format a new drive and then get an image from an equivalent Dispatch. Then you should transfer the customer's customized files and messages onto the new drive if you were able to recover those. If you are unfamiliar with some of this, you can also try to perform a backup 3 before cloning and then unpack it afterward.

I was able to use another HD, create a new partion (2GB) format and install DOS, then copy the old data, restart and it worked! Almost forgot my DOS skills, but was able to muddle through it. I also made a Ghost image of the failing drive too.

thanks for the reply and assistance!

jayvee