Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!pbinfo!ill From: ill@uni-paderborn.de (Markus Illenseer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Old Compaq Plus 10Meg Disk Died. Help! Keywords: Compaq, Hard Disk Trouble Message-ID: <1990Sep18.214944.27548@uni-paderborn.de> Date: 18 Sep 90 21:49:44 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, West Germany Lines: 27 fjs@coil.caltech.edu (Fernando J. Selman) writes: >I am using a very old (5 yrs?) Compaq Plus with a 10 MBytes >fixed disk. I got the following message when booting: > FIXED DISK ERROR 1701 >When I boot from floppy, the drive C (the hard disk) is not >even recognized. I have the impression that the disk does not >even start rotating anymore as some usual noise is not felt >anymore from that corner (maybe a safety feature?). >The light does go on though. >Any help will be highly welcomed. Thanks > - Fernando I think you'll have no chance ! This error is a (normally) controller error. But it appears, that the drive is defect instead of the controller. First, try any (AT or PC) controller (format the drive or try to access the drive). Then hit the drive (shuffle it, don't bother, it good old work !), to look weather it is the disk, which is not turning. If nothing helps, go and buy new drive, or better buy new PC. CU, Markus ******************************************************************************** Markus Illenseer I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid, I can't do that. 4790 Paderborn ,United Germany Email: ill@uni-paderborn.de ********************************************************************************