--- Doug McGarrett
On Thursday 03 June 2004 16:06, Stephen W wrote:
People, I'm learning ... Thanks for our help. Now I have been able to access 3 of the drives seen by my bios (Master Primary, Master Slave and Secondary Slave... the Secondary Master is still missing to linux).
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IF the old Windows disk was NOT formatted in NTFS, and you have a dos boot floppy with fdisk on it, then boot off the floppy and then issue the command fdisk -mbr This should reinitialise the master boot record if the disk is really functional. It will destroy any multi-boot stuff of course. But you'll be able to read the drive.
There are one or two dos programs that will read anything readable on a drive, as long as it is turning and the heads will move, but I don't know offhand what they are. I have actually seen one of them work!
Thanks Doug, I have such a floppy. I will logoff, reconfigure the HDs and try it. Thanks again StephenW __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/