I used an IBM Deskstar drive in a machine that I built but found that after a while there was a problem with it. Most of the time it worked fine but evry so often it would "disappear". The disappearance was first noticed in Windows when a bit of fiddling with "Add Device" would usually get it back but subsequently was noticed in BIOS when the BIOS failed to Auto Detect the drive.
The drive is obviously not that useful but I would like to be able to recover the data on it.
I was thinking of trying to set the drive as USER and set CYLINDERS=16383, HEADS=16, SECTORS=63 with LBA=ON or LBA=Off but thought it worth asking the gurus whether this could reasonably be expected to work or whether there was something else to try.
Any advice and guidance welcome.
Regards
Roger Bowen
The drive is obviously not that useful but I would like to be able to recover the data on it.
I was thinking of trying to set the drive as USER and set CYLINDERS=16383, HEADS=16, SECTORS=63 with LBA=ON or LBA=Off but thought it worth asking the gurus whether this could reasonably be expected to work or whether there was something else to try.
Any advice and guidance welcome.
Regards
Roger Bowen