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the hard drive manufacturer will have the specs for the particular drive...or they may be in the computer documentation. You'll need to know the manufacturer of the hard drive and the serial number...as well as the capacity of the drive. You'll also need a dos boot disk for the system...as some require a boot before you can access the BIOS setup. Go to the drive manufacturers web site, search for drive specs, and get the information on cylinders, capacity, etc. plug that into the BIOS and reboot---as long as there's no other damage by the spike, you should be OK. > X-From: Archana Bhandari <abhandari@unitec.ac.nz> > How do you know what are the hard drive specs in an old 486? > > My home computer experienced a spike and could not find its hard > drive. After changing the specs in the Amibios setup I got the hard > drive spinning but it says there is no oS - according to some one > who was helping that means it is looking in the wrong sector for the > os. > > What do I need to do to get the correct numbers - I know its a > prodrive 655MB size but not what type of hard drive, nor cylinders > and heads...... -- John Bobel Special Consultant for Technology and Strategic Development Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications One Kendall Square, Building 1500 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 tel: 617-252-5700 x739 fax: 617-252-5787 pgr: 800-503-0435 EDTECH has changed addresses. The new list address is EDTECH@H-NET.MSU.EDU. All subscription commands should be sent to LISTSERV@H-NET.MSU.EDU.
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