Legend 730 Update - Lemmy.World
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19281192
[https://lemmy.world/post/19281192] > A few days ago I posted about my old PC
and there was some interest, here’s an update. > > tldr: the hdd saved
everything! It has windows 3.1 and all the games I remember are still there. > >
Longer story: > I bought a few adapters for PATA/IDE to USB and they didn’t
work. I had this weird issue where when I plugged the usb into my computer, the
drive would power off. You can hear it spinning when it’s on, plug in USB, drive
powers off. Unplug USB, drive powers back on. So after buying 2 different
adapters, I gave up on trying to read it that way. > > Then, I got a floppy
reader and a bunch of floppy disks. The software testdisk has a DOS version, so
I copied that to a floppy and ran it on the computer. While it was analyzing the
HDD it told me in an error message that the drive appeared smaller than it
actually is, and I should update my bios settings. > > After struggling to
figure out how to get to bios (ctrl alt s, AFTER BOOTING), I googled my drive
model and found the cylinders, heads, sectors information and manually typed
that into the BIOS as a “user defined” hard drive, and that was all it needed to
be able to read the drive. > > After that it booted straight into PC DOS +
Windows 3.1 and everything is there. I found recipes, games, and other programs.
> > I was going to try to send files over serial, but it wasn’t working for me
(i still haven’t tried zmodem yet) but I couldn’t even receive an echo to the
serial port. So I’ve been backing things up by copying to floppy disk, then
reading the disk on my laptop with a reader. > > Image of hard drive
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e8e8b06d-8215-410a-b8f6-8313fa0333cc.jpeg] > >
Image of the computer running kings quest
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bdc2ee39-9962-4a93-b233-fb67901c4205.jpeg] > >
Running testdisk
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/09ad122f-1df9-4d0b-9ad5-79198c85d499.jpeg]
Legend 730 Update - Lemmy.World
A few days ago I posted about my old PC and there was some interest, here’s an
update. tldr: the hdd saved everything! It has windows 3.1 and all the games I
remember are still there. Longer story: I bought a few adapters for PATA/IDE to
USB and they didn’t work. I had this weird issue where when I plugged the usb
into my computer, the drive would power off. You can hear it spinning when it’s
on, plug in USB, drive powers off. Unplug USB, drive powers back on. So after
buying 2 different adapters, I gave up on trying to read it that way. Then, I
got a floppy reader and a bunch of floppy disks. The software testdisk has a DOS
version, so I copied that to a floppy and ran it on the computer. While it was
analyzing the HDD it told me in an error message that the drive appeared smaller
than it actually is, and I should update my bios settings. After struggling to
figure out how to get to bios (ctrl alt s, AFTER BOOTING), I googled my drive
model and found the cylinders, heads, sectors information and manually typed
that into the BIOS as a “user defined” hard drive, and that was all it needed to
be able to read the drive. After that it booted straight into PC DOS + Windows
3.1 and everything is there. I found recipes, games, and other programs. I was
going to try to send files over serial, but it wasn’t working for me (i still
haven’t tried zmodem yet) but I couldn’t even receive an echo to the serial
port. So I’ve been backing things up by copying to floppy disk, then reading the
disk on my laptop with a reader. Image of hard drive
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e8e8b06d-8215-410a-b8f6-8313fa0333cc.jpeg]
Image of the computer running kings quest
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bdc2ee39-9962-4a93-b233-fb67901c4205.jpeg]
Running testdisk
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/09ad122f-1df9-4d0b-9ad5-79198c85d499.jpeg]
Packard Bell Legend 730 - Lemmy.World
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19133125
[https://lemmy.world/post/19133125] > I have this vintage pc that I dug up and
recently powered on, the hard drive seems to be failing (sector read errors) but
I have a bunch of floppy disks i tried running today and it still works as long
as it’s running from the floppy and doesn’t need to be installed first. > > If
you guys are interested, I’ll post it running some things tomorrow. There’s a
bunch of things I want to do with it like try to replace the hard drive, get it
online, and get a compiler so I can port programs or write new ones for it.
Maybe install linux if that’s a possibility on 6MB of RAM. > > Image of BIOS
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7ecd49d5-3282-49fe-83a1-5fddb4fcd634.jpeg] > >
Image of directory listing
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f9539b44-ec7c-4d31-a57a-ad80cd72f7a3.jpeg]
Packard Bell Legend 730 - Lemmy.World
I have this vintage pc that I dug up and recently powered on, the hard drive
seems to be failing (sector read errors) but I have a bunch of floppy disks i
tried running today and it still works as long as it’s running from the floppy
and doesn’t need to be installed first. If you guys are interested, I’ll post it
running some things tomorrow. There’s a bunch of things I want to do with it
like try to replace the hard drive, get it online, and get a compiler so I can
port programs or write new ones for it. Maybe install linux if that’s a
possibility on 6MB of RAM. Image of BIOS
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7ecd49d5-3282-49fe-83a1-5fddb4fcd634.jpeg]
Image of directory listing
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f9539b44-ec7c-4d31-a57a-ad80cd72f7a3.jpeg]
