First post, by waterbeesje
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Today I'm retesting a bunch of ancient hard disks, of which some I know to be working fine and some untested at all.
Testing involves:
- does a FAT16/FAT32/NTFS partition exist?
- if so, will it boot? Then check with scandisk fully.
- If not, create a bit drive and full format it with DOS boot files
System used:
PC chips m577, AMD K6-2 and 64MB ram.
Booting from floppy with:
- PC DOS 5.02 (up to 300MB)
- MS DOS 6.22 (up to 1GB)
- Win98 boot disk (up to 40GB)
Among this bunch of drives there is this Conner CO3044 AT (IDE) hard drive.
According to th99 the chs should be 980/5/17 (translated). Bios is set to 'normal' and recognise the disk as expected.
I remember I previously removed all partition info and stored it without any attention. It was a working pull from an old Philips 286 laptop.
The disk had no partitions. Fdisk creates a nice 42MB partition as expected. No integrity errors.
Formatting leaves about half the sectors marked 'bad'. These were all sectors above 21xxx and count about 20xxx total (so not exactly 50%)
After system transfer and fdisk/MBR the drive still refuses to boot.
Tried with all three DOS boot disks without any success.
Scandisk reports an error at the first check from the sector that starts as failing and refuses to go on.
Pls help? Should I consider it dead? Is there any chance for a rescue?
Stuck at 10MHz...