HP97 The journey begins

[[kby]]

As you said in another post,
Bugger!

If you get to the Hail Mary point I can try to image whatever is imagable off of it. Fir you, I’ll put on the old sysadmin hat. What kind of interface is it? In the meantime, I would n]ot power the drive up unless you have some really good reason to; every time up could contribute to the degradation (assuming it had a head crash; worst case). If it’s just an issue with parameters or a the boot sector, that’s easy. Since your machine sounds old you may want to check applicable BIOS parameters for DIDI geometry, in case they inadvertently got corrupted or erased.

Anyway, I’m willing to give it the recovery try. With of course no guarantee you’ll get anything useful.

-kby

(03-14-2021 08:14 AM)teenix Wrote:  Hi all,

Sad days trying to design the new 97 board. I seem to be following the proverbial 1 step forward, 2 steps backward and perhaps got a bit jinxed along the way - maybe the HP Gods are trying to tell me something.

Just as I was about to print out the final design after many hours of work, my hard disk failed and looks to have damaged the data on the disk. The PC tries to fire up but eventually after displaying multiple disk errors, fails. Scan disk fails just after starting too if I invoke it at boot time. Lots of old and new files gone. I did backups along the way, but design by trial and error meant I did a new board from scratch over last the few days and is all gone. This means my old Protel software has finally fizzed so I'll need a new PCB design package (probably KiCad) to learn and continue from scratch.

cheers - well, a little bit still

Tony