enrico
Experienced Member
Pls excuse for my poor english, i hope to can explain well the help i ask for.
I have 2 older hard drives Conner CP-2024 one working and one not.
It seems that the not working may have lost the mapping between physical and logical geometry. Is there a way to make it alive?
I explain other I hope useful information.
Physical Geometry: 653 cylinders, 2 heads, 32 sectors per track
Geometry logic: 615 cylinders, 4 heads, 17 sectors per track
If I connect the working hard drive at the secondary controller of a Pentium III computer, for first the computer configures the hard disk with 653 cylinders, 2 heads, 32 sectors per track. In this way the hard disk became not enabled with any operating system (Windows 98, XP or Ubuntu).
If I manually set it into the bio with 615 cylinders, 4 heads, 17 sectors per track instead is became seen by the operating systems I said. If I install it on the primary controller of the same computer it boot DOS 4.01 OS and Windows 3.1 contained on that hard disk.
If I leave the same settings in this computer's bios and i connect to it the not working hard, the computer can not in any way to load any operating system.
Thanks for any helpful suggestions.
I have 2 older hard drives Conner CP-2024 one working and one not.
It seems that the not working may have lost the mapping between physical and logical geometry. Is there a way to make it alive?
I explain other I hope useful information.
Physical Geometry: 653 cylinders, 2 heads, 32 sectors per track
Geometry logic: 615 cylinders, 4 heads, 17 sectors per track
If I connect the working hard drive at the secondary controller of a Pentium III computer, for first the computer configures the hard disk with 653 cylinders, 2 heads, 32 sectors per track. In this way the hard disk became not enabled with any operating system (Windows 98, XP or Ubuntu).
If I manually set it into the bio with 615 cylinders, 4 heads, 17 sectors per track instead is became seen by the operating systems I said. If I install it on the primary controller of the same computer it boot DOS 4.01 OS and Windows 3.1 contained on that hard disk.
If I leave the same settings in this computer's bios and i connect to it the not working hard, the computer can not in any way to load any operating system.
Thanks for any helpful suggestions.