15 Jun
1998
15 Jun
'98
10:33 p.m.
At 03:44 PM 6/15/98 -0700, you wrote:
Hi,
I've got a question about "borderline" classics. I've got a few old
PCs
from right around 1990, maybe a bit earlier and I've got several small IDE
and MFM drives that I've scavenged from various places.
Several of these drives seem to almost work (they make the usual sounds
at power up and can be detected by the bios of a newer PC) but they won't
format/fdisk for me.
Anyone have any tips of things to try as far as simple troubleshooting?
Or are they doomed for the dumpster?
Thanks,
Bjorn
I have had quite good results with Ontrack Disk Manager, about four times
out of five it will get an old drive going and lock out the bad sectors.
The recovered drives have been going in XTs etc. At ten or twenty megs
capacity there is no point in trying to install them in modern computers.
Regards
Charlie Fox