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:D Thank you to all of you! In spite of my stupidity I did not screw it up and Everything you told me was right on. Now I am looking for an ISA adaptec 8 bit SCSI adapter card. Maybe Ebay? In college I worked my way by refrigerator and large appliance repair. Lots of times I got a condemmed...

:D Well I am happy and back using my CAD. I will get a Scsi card ASAP. Thank you all very much.

:D What do you know I found the right place to take it. In case you are anywhere near Cleveland, Budget PC 2535 Scranton RD. (216)566-1406 John han me up and running right away. He replaced the battery. and that fixed it. :D You told me right. Now I have to work on getting the files...

I replaced the B drive with a Sony I had and that works fine now. This violates my rule of only one thing breaks at a time. But maybe my old B drive was not bad just of an early type. :-? I made a few calls and I found one of those wonderful places with bins of hard drives for $5 each. I also...

:oops: Now I can not get drive B to work. Drive A is a 5.25 and boots Dos 5 from a floppy drive B i think was a 1.44 anyway i tried both settings and Either I am not typing in the right thing or somthing is wrong. I get A> and I type in B:\ and enter Do I type nf disc12? whatever I type I get...

Thanks Mark I tried Heads 5 Cyl 1024 pre 1024 lz 1024 sec26 I get wrong data in cmos but not hard disk failed initilization. I do not know if hard disk failed initialazation is a clue that some parameters aer close to the propper setting or if it is a clue that not only is there wrong...

Still no joy On :( On all of the 45 preset drive parameters I get incorrect configuration in cmos. In some I also get Hard drive failed initialization. I get hard drive failed initilization at 27 sectors and above Just in case this matters I had a Y2K problem too because I forgot and set the...

:( I have an old but good 386 full of un backed CADD files. I left it unplugged too long and it forgot the hard drive numbers. It is a Microscience HH-1060 S/N 08216 301 and has 5 heads 1024 cyl Pre Comp 1024 Rll. I need to specify LZ and Sectors I remember that it was about 60 0r 62 0r 67 mb...