HP97 The journey begins

[teenix]

(03-16-2021 07:13 AM)[kby] Wrote:  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

That is a pretty good offer and much appreciated. I tracked down another hard disk here in Oz but with all the effort of reinstalling and trying to find my original install CD and boot disk which also may have failed, I think I will just resign the old beast to a recycler. No doubt something else will fail at some stage.

This KiCad board design software is nowhere near as user friendly as the old Protel - such is life :-)

Thanks again

cheers

Tony