Ted, W1GRI, and Bob, WB4SON, went back to the repeater again. Their goal was to install the newly cloned HDD into the PC to verify that it works, leaving a valid spare HDD. In addition, Ted had purchased a rack mounted VGA monitor/keyboard/trackpad. That allowed us to remove the old monochrome CRT which was out of alignment and too small to read. It also eliminates the problem of having no place to put the keypad and mouse.
While the repeater is back up on the air, the internet connection is not. That is being investigated and will be fixed by Sept 22 or earlier.