15 Jun
1998
15 Jun
'98
1:44 p.m.
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
16 Jun
16 Jun
1:33 a.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
7:52 a.m.
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Charles E. Fox wrote:
(I've shortened your quote of my email...)
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.
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.
Thanks for the tip. I've tried Spinrite and some program I got with a WD
drive. I believe I got Ontrack with a drive I bought recently. I'll try
it. I'm afraid it may be beyond that though. The drives are not getting
as far as reporting bad sectors ... they just hang when I try to format
them.
Regards,
Bjorn Eng
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