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How To Repair / Revive 1980s Hard Drives Tutorial

3,925 views · Published 22 April 2016 · 14:09 · Indexed 28 October 2026

Channel: RetroGamerVX · 2016 · Science & Technology

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In this one, we are looking at a method used to repair / revive a 80s hard drive that has seek issues / bad sectors, with a system that runs under the DOS operating system.  I do not accept any liability for this method failing on your system and causing damage.  THIS METHOD WILL REMOVE ALL DATA ON YOUR DRIVE, PLEASE BACK UP IF POSSIBLE.  This method does not repair sectors, but makes the drive useable again by mapping them.

List of commands used:

     Debug

 **list of rom commands**

 G=C800:5
 G=CA00:5
 G=CC00:5
 G=CE00:5
 
       HDFORMAT

       FDISK

 1. Create DOS partition,
 
 2. Create Primary DOS partition.

DOS installation will vary with system.


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