lane@cs.dal.ca (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane) (02/24/89)
If you have a hard disk which is formatted and contains data and you put
it into another machine as either 1st or 2nd hard disk do you necessarily
have to low-level re-format it? Can you under some circumstances read the
data from the disk.
I have been trying this with very mixed (and mixed-up!) results. Does the
type of machines make a difference (ie. taking an AT disk to another AT and
chnaging the CMOS setup if nec., XT-to-XT, or XT-to-AT, etc.)? Even swapping
the same type of disks and controller (ie. taking a 5 side, 1024 cyl disk from
one AT with WD1003 controller to another AT with the same type of controller
and replacing a 5 side 1024 cyl disk) produces strange results. DOS refuses
to read the new drive until I use a program like Norton's Utility to look
at the disk and see that the old data is still there. Then upon exiting NU,
DOS can read the drive just fine...strange, no?
Another dumb question from ....
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