Fixing "old" (but not quite classic) IDE and MFM drives?

From: Charles E. Fox <foxvideo_at_wincom.net>
Date: Tue Jun 16 05:33:31 1998

At 03:44 PM 6/15/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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Received on Tue Jun 16 1998 - 05:33:31 BST