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Hello frenns. Sorry to revive an old thread. 

I have a single 20MB mfm hdd from my gramp's old Amstrad pc1512. I can't get it to be recognized in said ancient beast, as it's a bit of a mess. The cost of these emulators is prohibitive, for sure.  I'd love to get a read on this drive, or ideally, an image.  Doesn't seem anyone rents these though, lol.  If anyone could point me to anywhere that may offer such a service for reasonable fees well below the cost of the emus, or if you are willing to yourself, I'd be glad to hear of it.  Thanks ahead of time for all.

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1 hour ago, rbudrick said:

Hello frenns. Sorry to revive an old thread. 

I have a single 20MB mfm hdd from my gramp's old Amstrad pc1512. I can't get it to be recognized in said ancient beast, as it's a bit of a mess. The cost of these emulators is prohibitive, for sure.  I'd love to get a read on this drive, or ideally, an image.  Doesn't seem anyone rents these though, lol.  If anyone could point me to anywhere that may offer such a service for reasonable fees well below the cost of the emus, or if you are willing to yourself, I'd be glad to hear of it.  Thanks ahead of time for all.

I don't think these emulators are set up to recover data from drives that have issues. I think that you can read a working MFM hard drive to an image file with the Gesswein or others, but there is no provision to do a flux level read like a Greasweazel or other floppy drive. The Armstrad was compatible with IBM mfm disks so it is probably formatted in Fat format, so should be readable in an  older pc with a MFM hard drive card, like an old 286 or 386 system, which I have several diassambled and non operational stored away. But it seems wiser to ask if someone in this set of forums or on another site has a system set up that they can utilize to attempt to grab your data, the three Gessweins I built are meant to be used with a ti99 or Geneve using a Myarc Personality card or a Myarc HDFC, just waiting on a working peripherial box, I don't think a ti based system will read IBM formatted hard drives, without some kind of program. It would probably be weeks before I could attempt to revive one of my older PC ISA motherboard  systems, the only working PC's I have currently are laptops or PCI based PC motherboard systems.

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Thanks, RickyDean. I don't think there's anything wrong with the drive, really. I think it's the Amstrad. I've got an ancient win 98 machine with isa slots, but I dont think the controller card from the amstrad would work, since the bios is likely for said 8-bit Amstrad. On power, it spins up and makes all the expected sounds. Just Amstrad sees no C:\. So, I dont have any real reason to believe it wouldnt image fine. 

 

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