Hi guys I have a pretty old pentium 233 that im trying to fix. Therse info on the hard drive that they desperatley want to keep. The pc loads up to the dos screen then says disk A drive error press f1 to resume. if you continue and press f1 it carries on past the windows screen where eventually it comes up as not reading the C drive. The drive is recognised in Dos and i have put it into my other machine as a slave , it is recognised in DOS but not in windows. Does anyone have any idea how i can get the information off. Ive heard about a hard drive clone but im unsure how to go about it thanks
Well, since you can see it in DOS, I'd try doing my copying from there. Might be a little bit tedious, but probably the safest way for right now. Not sure what the whole problem is, but I'd grab what data you can and look into a new machine. It's old enough that I wouldn't spend a lot of time trying to fix up.
ive tried copying from DOS. The problem im having now which i presume is unrelated. Is altho it picks up the drive , when i go into DOS, it only picks up one of the drives and not the other one. Thus i cant copy any files over. Ive been booting up with a windows 98 SU and am using win XP, thats the only thing i can think could make any difference. Ive checked all cabling and tried changing round jumpers and drives etc but nothing.... any ideas???
if you have any other computers try taking the drive out and connect it to the other one. That way you might be able to copy them over.
thats kind of the problem I'm having. I'm trying to get a hard drive that wouldnt boot work on my own pc as a master...
