haverlan@tramp.colorado.edu (HAVERLAND MARC BRADLEY) (02/19/91)
Hello, netters. I have an *old* IBM PC with a 10MB hard drive with possibly two problems: 1) the keyboard connection or circuits don't work 2) the hard drive may be gone. I can't test the hard drive in the original machine, because of the keyboard problem, so: Can I take the 10MB hard drive and controller out of the *old* IBM PC and install them in my 386 to test? Is the data going to be destroyed before I get a chance to change the BIOS drive type? Can I determine the drive specs (heads, cylinders, etc), and therefore the drive type, using Disk Manager? I need to be careful with the data on the disk :-(. Thanks for any input. Marc Haverland haverlan@tramp.colorado.edu 303-650-1100
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (02/24/91)
In article <1991Feb18.230518.19808@csn.org> haverlan@tramp.colorado.edu (HAVERLAND MARC BRADLEY) writes: | Can I take the 10MB hard drive and controller out of the *old* IBM PC and | install them in my 386 to test? a) yes b) type 1 if you have anything like a standard BIOS c) yes, I've done it twice -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me