CNC bridgeport

Bill Hincher · Post by **Bill Hincher** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 11:13 am

I am soooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed

I fired up my computer on my CNC bridgeport and I centered the table, then I tried to use the programs and I must have confused it, so I shut it down, now it wont boot up

Its an old system and I have floppy disc's I that have old back ups and utilites, but I am afraid I have lost all my data

the computer cant find the C-drive

We tried a new hard drive but the machine wont recognize it, the manufacturer no longer makes the original hard drive available, we found what 'may' work and ordered it shipped overnight

here is the manual at the website

http://www.acu-rite....pwr2axman05.pdf

This system 'new' is $13000.00 ( yes, thousand) and even if I get everything re-booted, all the data has to be put back in service
I am back to working on the manual back up machines but this all takes extra time

' any guru's out there ?'

Screwed Bill

CarRacer · Post by **CarRacer** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 3:11 pm

Sorry to hear you ran into troubles. I posted up a link to this thread on galantvr4.org to see if anyone could help and a guy who also has a CNC machine in his home shop offered this help:

Welcome to my world of fighting languages.

He needs to first pull the harddrive and buy an external drive holder so he can copy and backup his files on another system and make sure there not erased.

Then he'll have to put in a new harddrive get it formatted and set-up from scratch with the op system then copy the old stuff to it.

That is if I read it right. I really don't think he's using a dos or other program with the files on a floppy is he.

I'm not sure that is what you wanted to hear or if it helps out at all. I'm confident you'll find a solution. Hope it just doesn't put up too much of a fight.

Bill Hincher · Post by **Bill Hincher** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:43 am

get this, the tech guy tries a new hard drive, the machine is too old to handle all the memory, so he orders an older hard drive, well nobody carries it anymore and we cant get one, so I go back and dig out a 15 year old computer ( I never throw anything out) he pulls the hard drive out and sticks it in the bridgeport, it fires right up! >;o)
I found some old back ups and I am kinda back in shape

need2boostpsi · Post by **need2boostpsi** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:04 am

good to hear Bill!

Post by **DJpowerHaus** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 3:04 pm

Hahaha. Great save!

lsr mike · Post by **lsr mike** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:35 am

It may be possible that you only lost the boot block on the original hard drive.It won't boot the machine from there, but all the data(or most) is still there.
Install the Original drive as a second hard drive in the system and access all the original data that way. It becomes a D: Drive. copy everything back to the "new" C drive, saved My Kiester more than once on my work computer...