Hi all,
Encountered an issue when attempting to resurrect a 22 year old system.
On initial start-up the CPU gave overheating beeps. Sorted that out with a spring clean but major issues have since reared their ugly heads.
To get forward with solving them my first query is if TestDisk can be run from a FD as that is now the only means to gain pc access. The download in zip form is too large to fit on a 1.44 media. Therefore, is there a core component that I can extract which will operate from a FD even if there is not enough room to include boot files?
cheers,
Kev
Boot partition showing Fat12
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Re: Boot partition showing Fat12
Telling the name of the operating system would be more helpful than telling that it is 22 year old.Yorkie wrote: 15 Nov 2022, 16:49 Hi all,
Encountered an issue when attempting to resurrect a 22 year old system.
Do me a favor and replace your abbreviations by full words. In 10 years nobody will know what "FD" should stand for!
On initial start-up the CPU gave overheating beeps. Sorted that out with a spring clean but major issues have since reared their ugly heads.
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/DOS_BootDiskTo get forward with solving them my first query is if TestDisk can be run from a FD as that is now the only means to gain pc access. The download in zip form is too large to fit on a 1.44 media. Therefore, is there a core component that I can extract which will operate from a FD even if there is not enough room to include boot files?
Re: Boot partition showing Fat12
I don't know why but my reply of a few days ago seems not to have made it!
So, re-post. Result after a scan:-
Analyse Disk80 - 4507 MN / 4298 MiB - CHS 548 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=255 Sector=63
Should be marked as Fat16
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=255 nbr-16
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=8 nbr-2
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=16 nbr-2
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=32 nbr-1
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=64 nbr-1
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=128 nbr-1
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=240 nbr-1
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=255 nbr-16
Partition table type (auto): None
Analyse Disk81 - 4507 MB / 4298 MiB - CHS 548 255 63
This was originally a dual-boot system and fdisk shows a 8 MB partition for this purpose.
Even after reading some of the program's documentation I'm still unsure how to change the table to Fat16.
Kev
So, re-post. Result after a scan:-
Analyse Disk80 - 4507 MN / 4298 MiB - CHS 548 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=255 Sector=63
Should be marked as Fat16
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=255 nbr-16
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=8 nbr-2
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=16 nbr-2
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=32 nbr-1
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=64 nbr-1
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=128 nbr-1
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=240 nbr-1
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=255 nbr-16
Partition table type (auto): None
Analyse Disk81 - 4507 MB / 4298 MiB - CHS 548 255 63
This was originally a dual-boot system and fdisk shows a 8 MB partition for this purpose.
Even after reading some of the program's documentation I'm still unsure how to change the table to Fat16.
Kev