jeremy@mips.COM (Jeremy M. Schneider) (01/23/90)
I have a friend who, while installing a floppy drive controller card,
connected the 34 pin connector upside down.
After realizing his mistake (the floppies wouldn't stop spinning),
he installed it correctly, and discovered that the system wouldn't
boot.
The RLL hard disk, which was being controlled by an MFM controller,
seems to have been corrupted.
CHKDSK said:
disk error reading FAT1
disk error reading FAT2
disk error reading drive C:
Nortons utilities was able to read some directories, but not
some others.
Do any of you gurus have any suggestions about how he might
possibly recover from this situation?
Please email.
Thanks.
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Jeremy M. Schneider jeremy@mips.com
MIPS Computer Systems {ames,decwrl,prls}!mips!jeremy
930 Arques Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94086 408-991-7805 (work)emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) (02/03/90)
In article <34950@mips.mips.COM|, jeremy@mips.COM (Jeremy M. Schneider) writes: | I have a friend who, while installing a floppy drive controller card, | connected the 34 pin connector upside down. | | After realizing his mistake (the floppies wouldn't stop spinning), | he installed it correctly, and discovered that the system wouldn't | boot. | | The RLL hard disk, which was being controlled by an MFM controller, | seems to have been corrupted. | | CHKDSK said: | | disk error reading FAT1 | disk error reading FAT2 | disk error reading drive C: | | Nortons utilities was able to read some directories, but not | some others. | | Do any of you gurus have any suggestions about how he might | possibly recover from this situation? | Careful what you use on that one! I'd give good odds that the drive itself is ok, the controller's cmos registers have been altered so it thinks it's got a different number of heads. Check this BEFORE you run any kind of recovery programme on the drive! You'll need to have the drive type number or it's specs handy to re-set them. Hope you saw this in time! Dave E.