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Dodgy Hard Drive

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Got an old hard drive that I suspect has finally died a death. I can set it up in the BIOS, and format it from there (it's in a old - 486 - machine, and this, I believe is a low level format), and then boot up with DOS 5.0 and create a partition with fdisk. But when I reboot the partitions aren't there. It sounds to me like it's gone like Monty Python's parrot, anyone else got any ideas that I can try, or do you agree with me?

Cheers

MH
 
Does it detect in Device Manager or in Disk Manager? You might have to initialize it before it shows up in My Computer.

Disk Manager:
Right click My computer -> Manage -> Disk Manager in the left column -> right click on old drive -> initialize.
 
This is pre windows with any sort of device manager, lol, gonna install DOS and windows 3.11 on it - ancient 486 DX machine - hence I'm using FDISK.
 
Some hard drives die a slow death, I have an old 10GB WD that would load the operating system but then freeze up. At first it was hours before it would freeze, but it got progressively worse to where it would not last even a few minutes.
 
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