Maxtor 7120AT jumper settings.

[Sour Patrol]

I have succeeded in booting from the floppy and I can confirm the files are still on drive C. A Windows installation dated 9-4-98, AOL 3.0, DOS, and Program Files.

 

[modem7]

I have succeeded in booting from the floppy and I can confirm the files are still on drive C. A Windows installation dated 9-4-98, AOL 3.0, DOS, and Program Files.

Replacement box of floppies, or some other method ?

 

[Sour Patrol]

Replacement box of floppies, or some other method ?

It might've been just cleaning the read/write heads on the old drive. I'm not sure. I still can't get it to boot: "No operating system detected." but the data's there, at least.

 

[powerlot]

This usually happens if the hard drive settings are wrong (e.g. LBA instead of CHS) or the MBR got corrupted.

 

[Malc]

It might've been just cleaning the read/write heads on the old drive. I'm not sure. I still can't get it to boot: "No operating system detected." but the data's there, at least.

What CHS parameters did you set in the BIOS for the Hard drive ?, Download ' BIOSDRVS.com ' stick it on your boot floppy and run it, See what that says, You can have it output a txt file if you want,
' biosdrvs.com > Fred.txt or whatever name you want.

 

[modem7]

Replacement box of floppies, or some other method ?

It might've been just cleaning the read/write heads on the old drive. I'm not sure. I still can't get it to boot: "No operating system detected." but the data's there, at least.

Maybe bad diskettes putting a layer of 'crud' on the heads.
You are now in the position of trying what I wrote of in post #50, ...

I'm leaving the country for six months on the 24th, so my window to be able to work on this project is rapidly closing.

... but possibly in six months time.

 

[Sour Patrol]

Big thanks to everyone who's helped me with this! Yeah, I'm out of country for a bit, but I'll probably come back to this next year and try to get the computer bootable again. I appreciate you all!