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December 2nd, 2009, 0:00
I'm trying to Ghost an old 40MB (yes megabits) hard drive that I'm having problems with. The drive is formatted with a different amount of sectors than it actually has. The parameters of the drive are entered in the bios instead of it - the bios actually detecting them. The drive is running dos 5.0.
When I first tried to Ghost, there were error due to the incorrect sectors. I then tried to force cloning and access drive directly and Ghost completed but drive would not boot.
Besides Ghost, I've tried:
1. Format another drive with Dos 6.22 and then copying all (including hidden/system files) to drive. Drive will boot but errors occurred. I think this might have worked but I need to get a copy of Dos 5.0 and try.
2. Format another drive with the same parameters and then "sys"ing the drive to get it to boot.
I can provide more specific information tomorrow as I'm away from the bench.
Thanks,
Justjim.
December 5th, 2009, 11:37
Well I solved the problem. I got a 6.4 gig drive bootable with DOS5 and then laplink copied all files from the 40gig drive to the 6.4. Then the drive and program worked successfully.
Interesting that I then tried to again Ghost the 6.4 gig drive but unsuccessful in the old Pentium 120. Moving the drive to a Pentium II, I was able to get a successful ghost but the drive wouldn't boot. The partition was only 39mb instead of the 6.4 gig that I had formatted.
Anyway, ...
justjim.
December 21st, 2009, 1:47
justjim wrote:I'm trying to Ghost an old 40MB (yes megabits) hard drive that I'm having problems with. The drive is formatted with a different amount of sectors than it actually has. The parameters of the drive are entered in the bios instead of it - the bios actually detecting them. The drive is running dos 5.0.
When I first tried to Ghost, there were error due to the incorrect sectors. I then tried to force cloning and access drive directly and Ghost completed but drive would not boot.
Besides Ghost, I've tried:
1. Format another drive with Dos 6.22 and then copying all (including hidden/system files) to drive. Drive will boot but errors occurred. I think this might have worked but I need to get a copy of Dos 5.0 and try.
2. Format another drive with the same parameters and then "sys"ing the drive to get it to boot.
I can provide more specific information tomorrow as I'm away from the bench.
Thanks,
Justjim.
40 mega bit= 5 mega byte LOL Even my 286 had a bigger HDD than that.
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