BIG pain for such a small drive...

[leeb]

This machine came with a Conner CP-2024 2.5" HDD as standard equipment. Of course, I cannot expect the machine to operate... yet.

What bothers me tho, is the hard drive... I am able to remove it and connect it to my XP thru a USB box... which recognizes it and all that.

Problem is that it APPEARS to be... sick/defective/broken or some combination. While the USB box talks to it and knows what it is, there seems to be no evidence that there had ever been a format (low, high or whatever) applied to this drive.

I fear that the drive (and any software that MAY have been on it) are lost.

I dont intend to give up on it yet... at least not until the floppy drive issue is resolved and a DOS boot is achieved... Perhaps after that, I can coerce it into accepting a spare 40GB drive I have lying around!

Cart-before-the-horse issue here, but I am hoping soon to find a 1MB memory stick for the expansion... Oooohh... 1.6 Mb. Can I handle it? :shocked:

 

[k2x4b524[]

XP will never be able to properly see that drive or ANY drive smaller than 1gb to my knowledge through a USB adapter. I remember a discussion on this in the forums, it's got something to do with how the adapter and xp address the drive

 

[leeb]

Interesting... it never has difficulty with my 512 MB memory stick....
Was it corrected by a SP perhaps?

I can always build an ME drive and attach it there, I suppose.

Datsok tho... I have ordered a couple of IDE(44)-2-IDE(40) connectors so that I can attach the drive directly to IDE... if it doesnt show anything that way, it is likely 'hurtin'... :D

 

[k2x4b524[]

it show that way, with the 44-40 pin adapter, with that you can plug it in directly to the IDE bus on the host computer. The 512mb memory stick, well, the machine being as old as it is, can probably only see 540mb MAX in the bios, 1024 cylinder limitation. give the ide adapter a try, and plug it directly to your XP computer's onboard controller card, from there you can use disk management to determine if the drive is toast, if not, you can use XP to pull the data, then completely erase the partition, put back in the old machine and do a clean redo of it's life, it's a conner so you i'm not sure of you can LLF it directly, conners aren't pleasant to work with...