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February 7, 2002 at 11:57 PM
rick bowers

Trouble recovering data from an old pc

by rick bowers . Updated 24 years, 4 months ago

Does anyone have any ideas on recovering data from an old 286 pc. The hard drive is pre IDE and has 2 cables connecting it to an I/O card. I’m pretty sure that it’s connected properly but on booting I get a Hard Disk Failiure message.

In the BIOS setup I have input what I believe to be the correct data cyl:16 Hd:8 WPcom:128 Sec:17 gives a size of 41mb.

The Bios is American Megatrends ENET-1112-030389-K8.

It has a second setup screen which I have not altered as yet.

Any Ideas?

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