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CBlakeNS

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I got a bunch of papers on this old computer and I cant get it to start up.....it just tells me that "Non System Disk or disk error" however there is no disk in the computer anywhere...

I cant get it to get into where I have all these papers saved and I have done a bunch of stuff such as trying to run the cmos defaults but that still wont work..any ideas...
 
{NcsO}ReichstaG said:
Doesn't a " Disk Error" mean the comp does not see the harddrive? Maybe it's broken
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I mean of course its broken, but when I go into the cmos and looked for like under c drive and shit it said it was not installed and there is a list of like 46 or them and 47 is like a manual do it yourself thing?? Its weird I dont know which one to choose.
 
Might be best to pull the drive and hook it up as a slave in another system.
 
try a different ide cable.. plug it into a different power connector.. do both a and b.. try the secondary ide channel..

that's about all you can do, other than putting it in another computer or an external enclosure or something...
 
I have been setting up PC AT and compatibles since 1987 and almost all work with "Auto" setting. What computer model? And what hard drive model?
 
Type 46 and 47 used to be the only manually configurable IDE settings. Most systems didn't have auto settings until the 486 era (and even many of them had to be manually done). Your best bet is probably pulling the drive out of that system and putting it into a newer system that will automatically detect it.

It is also possible that the read heads have stuck to the platter if the system has been sitting for a long time, thereby preventing the drive from spinning up. If it seems like this is the case (i.e. if you don't hear the drive spinning up), you may need to smack it. I've found the butt of a screwdriver works well.
 
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