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| Thread ID: 86095 | 2008-01-03 08:56:00 | Recovering data from SCSI drive | johnd (85) | Press F1 |
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| 627011 | 2008-01-03 08:56:00 | Hi I have inherited a problem to solve - my elderly uncle and aunt had a grandchild "cleaning up" their PC and made it unbootable (Windows 98). The PC is a old Dell Dimension XPS D266 that was ex-educational institute and must have been very high spec at the time. The hard drive and CDROM are SCSI (Adaptec AHA-2940 host). My first concern was to recover some important files that are not backed up. I tried booting with Knoppix to no avail - then a number of other Linux boot disks. I found a recommendation to return the SCSI BIOS to default but this made no difference.Setting the CDROM device as bootable in the SCSI BIOS makes no difference. The CDROM is functional - the CD spins up and the light is on. It will not load the XP CD either. The specific message I get with PCLOS is "Cannot boot from this disk. Please use CD2 or try a BIOS update". Message from Knoppix and a number of other distros is "Loading spec packet failed - trying to wing it. See syslinuix.zytor.com I have been to the above site and downloaded a floppy image to boot from - one of the features is to pass the boot onto the CDROM - but it doesn't understand SCSI so it doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated! John |
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| 627012 | 2008-01-03 09:22:00 | Had you considered removing the hard drive & slaving it to a working PC? | Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 627013 | 2008-01-03 09:26:00 | I don't have another SCSI equipped PC though. One thing I will try tomorrow though is to add a IDE CDROM and see if that does the trick. |
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| 627014 | 2008-01-03 20:06:00 | Being of that vintage & running 98 would it still have a copy of dos on board? | Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 627015 | 2008-01-03 22:05:00 | One thing I will try tomorrow though is to add a IDE CDROM and see if that does the trick. That worked - I think that the next step is a new (second hand) PC to replace this old thing. The new one will include a DVD-RW and some instructions on backup! |
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