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popper · 09-09-2008, 23:40

my guess is the USB to IDE is messing up the original
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
or rather its useing different settings to the original broken PC bios it came out of.

the data's still there, its reading some of the fat tables but cant read the full data
properly until you load up the right heads/cylinders/sectors as it was using in the old PC.

that may be picked up right on a real IDE cable or you may still need to change these settings and thats a problem unless you can find out what the original ones were or you get lucky and pick the right ones.

iv seen this many times in the distant past and that is most likely the problem,
fixing it is hit and miss unless you know these original Bios settings sorry to say.

is it against the DPA, only if its holding personal data that isnt yours without permission.

09-09-2008, 23:40	#7
popper Inactive Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,270	Re: Problems mounting an old IDE disk my guess is the USB to IDE is messing up the original 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders or rather its useing different settings to the original broken PC bios it came out of. the data's still there, its reading some of the fat tables but cant read the full data properly until you load up the right heads/cylinders/sectors as it was using in the old PC. that may be picked up right on a real IDE cable or you may still need to change these settings and thats a problem unless you can find out what the original ones were or you get lucky and pick the right ones. iv seen this many times in the distant past and that is most likely the problem, fixing it is hit and miss unless you know these original Bios settings sorry to say. is it against the DPA, only if its holding personal data that isnt yours without permission.