Re: Recover old Sider II drive.. Help?

[grent@comcast.net]

 Hi,
 Which system are you using IIe or IIgs?  Prosell, or if you are Using
IIgs Prosell, Deliverence or Uninverse Master might be able to help you
pull the stuff off on to other disks. It depends on where you are
located. Would hate to have it lost in the mail. I am sure a few others
will tell you what you need to do, better than I have. Lets hope the HD
is not froze or there are not to many bad blocks.

chris155@gmail.com wrote:
> I asked this question about two years ago - got a couple of replies,
> but unfortunately I was not able to act on them in time.
>
> I've got an old Sider II drive that has a lot of old code I wrote that
> I'd like to archive. Unfortunately, I haven't had much luck booting it
> up on my old machine - and I'm sorry to say I really don't remember
> much about the system (or ProDOS) to really make it work.
>
> I've gotten to the point where I can boot with a ProDOS disk, and can
> do a PREFIX /HARD1. That works OK, but once I try to do a CAT or
> something, I get an I/O ERROR.
>
> I do remember that back in the day - the last time I used this drive
> (sometime in 1994), I had to boot with a boot disk, then PREFIX over,
> then start up PROSEL manually to use stuff on the drive - it wouldn't
> boot, but it was readable.
>
> I'm worried now that the drive itself may be "frozen", as it does make
> odd noises (and always did back in the day - for years)..
>
> Is there anyone around who might have the expertise to pull the data
> off this drive (for a fee, I'd expect, naturally.)???
> 
> Thanks again..
> 
> -CT