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From: haverlan@tramp.colorado.edu (HAVERLAND MARC BRADLEY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Swapping Hard Drives
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Date: 18 Feb 91 23:05:18 GMT
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Hello, netters.

I have an *old* IBM PC with a 10MB hard drive with possibly two problems:
	1) the keyboard connection or circuits don't work
	2) the hard drive may be gone.

I can't test the hard drive in the original machine, because of the keyboard
problem, so:


Can I take the 10MB hard drive and controller out of the *old* IBM PC and
install them in my 386 to test?

Is the data going to be destroyed before I get a chance to change the BIOS
drive type?  Can I determine the drive specs (heads, cylinders, etc), and
therefore the drive type, using Disk Manager?  I need to be careful with
the data on the disk :-(.

Thanks for any input.

Marc Haverland		haverlan@tramp.colorado.edu	303-650-1100