Solve : 486 issue?

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Answer» Okay so any way I was going threw fopplies and found ms-dos 6.22. The thing is that I'm still getting faliure fixed disk 0. I ASSUME thats the hd. The thing is I CHANGED out the drive. Connected it right and still the same thing 2gb maxtor.If you changed it out and what you put in was a 2 GB Maxtor, you swapped one VERY OLD hard (fixed) drive for another VERY OLD hard drive. Surprise surprise it doesn't work either. When will you GIVE UP with all this old junk that belongs in a trash dump? Cause Maxtor solves everything...even on drives it wasn't written for....Boot to the first floppy and type in sys C:\ and hit Enter and see what happens...? It works except maybe the drive thats in there. Cause its classic and getting rid of it is pointless if I can use it for something instead of haveing it sit around or something. No its just that I attucally have LESS trouble with maxtor then WD were it hasnt showed in the post but they worked else were and spinned up.I did discover something it gives me two beeps during start. Cant say about the other machine.Wow, some things never change around here, do they? I assume this machine is discussed in another thread that I can't be bothered to look up. What does this have to do with a "486 issue"? Sounds like it should be called "hard drive issue" and some more details should be provided.its not the hard drive for the eight or sixth time and I dont have time right know to deal with your crap.Nice cover story regarding your new MS Dos 6.22. Quote from: squall_01 on March 06, 2009, 09:13:26 AM its not the hard drive for the eight or sixth time Quote The thing is that I'm still getting faliure fixed disk 0 It's a problem with the hard drive or it's configuration.why would it be when I tried another drive and it still dont work. i check the settings I dont know. Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on March 06, 2009, 09:15:46 AM Nice cover story regarding your new MS Dos 6.22. I'll just elaborate on my point here, Squall has been trying to ACQUIRE MS DOS 6.22 illegally, starting a topic asking where to find download links. It seems like he has found them. Quote from: squall_01 on March 06, 2009, 09:22:09 AM why would it be when I tried another drive and it still dont work. Well, it's right there. Quote faliure fixed disk 0 That's what the error generally means. You can go ahead and replace every other component to confirm that the HD is the culprit, but since the PC is letting you know the issue it's encounteringyou should go with that. properly jumpered? Good IDE cable? Enough power to the drive? The fact that the issue still occurs with another HD may eliminate that actual HD (except in the circumstance Dias alluded to, in which both drives have failed as a result of age), but it doesn't eliminate the other requisites such as power, cabling, and ATA configuration. Do you have S.M.A.R.T enabled? If so try disabling it. most 486 BIOS screens have a load of HDD related settings. Start with a known working HDD that did not have an OS installed on it from a different machine.... This however would be a novel approach to how you've done it in the past.I cant say till I look at it. The 2 gb works fine. No Carbon if I had you be the first to know. My dad has a copy as well as lotus 1,2,3 and word perfect.

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Okay so any way I was going threw fopplies and found ms-dos 6.22. The thing is that I'm still getting faliure fixed disk 0. I ASSUME thats the hd. The thing is I CHANGED out the drive. Connected it right and still the same thing 2gb maxtor.If you changed it out and what you put in was a 2 GB Maxtor, you swapped one VERY OLD hard (fixed) drive for another VERY OLD hard drive. Surprise surprise it doesn't work either.

When will you GIVE UP with all this old junk that belongs in a trash dump?

Cause Maxtor solves everything...even on drives it wasn't written for....Boot to the first floppy and type in sys C:\ and hit Enter and see what happens...? It works except maybe the drive thats in there. Cause its classic and getting rid of it is pointless if I can use it for something instead of haveing it sit around or something. No its just that I attucally have LESS trouble with maxtor then WD were it hasnt showed in the post but they worked else were and spinned up.I did discover something it gives me two beeps during start. Cant say about the other machine.Wow, some things never change around here, do they?

I assume this machine is discussed in another thread that I can't be bothered to look up. What does this have to do with a "486 issue"? Sounds like it should be called "hard drive issue" and some more details should be provided.its not the hard drive for the eight or sixth time and I dont have time right know to deal with your crap.Nice cover story regarding your new MS Dos 6.22. Quote from: squall_01 on March 06, 2009, 09:13:26 AM

its not the hard drive for the eight or sixth time

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The thing is that I'm still getting faliure fixed disk 0

It's a problem with the hard drive or it's configuration.why would it be when I tried another drive and it still dont work. i check the settings I dont know. Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on March 06, 2009, 09:15:46 AM

Nice cover story regarding your new MS Dos 6.22.

I'll just elaborate on my point here, Squall has been trying to ACQUIRE MS DOS 6.22 illegally, starting a topic asking where to find download links. It seems like he has found them. Quote from: squall_01 on March 06, 2009, 09:22:09 AM

why would it be when I tried another drive and it still dont work.

Well, it's right there.

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faliure fixed disk 0

That's what the error generally means.

You can go ahead and replace every other component to confirm that the HD is the culprit, but since the PC is letting you know the issue it's encounteringyou should go with that.

properly jumpered? Good IDE cable? Enough power to the drive?

The fact that the issue still occurs with another HD may eliminate that actual HD (except in the circumstance Dias alluded to, in which both drives have failed as a result of age), but it doesn't eliminate the other requisites such as power, cabling, and ATA configuration.

Do you have S.M.A.R.T enabled? If so try disabling it. most 486 BIOS screens have a load of HDD related settings.

Start with a known working HDD that did not have an OS installed on it from a different machine....

This however would be a novel approach to how you've done it in the past.I cant say till I look at it. The 2 gb works fine. No Carbon if I had you be the first to know. My dad has a copy as well as lotus 1,2,3 and word perfect.

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