How To install a used HDD with contents preserved?
1. Find out the cylinder/head/sectors numbers that the HDD was used. It should be in the CMOS setup on which machine the HDD was installed. [If you don’t have this information, try to use TDPARAM.EXE in the Installation Diskette. If it is not the original cylinder/head/sectors numbers used, it may not work. You have to find out the original numbers somehow.] 2. Execute TD.EXE command, use option 120 with password td (lower case) (set translate mode) with the original cylinder/head/sectors numbers. 3. Then, use option 118 (Re-mark) with the above cylinder/head/sectors numbers. DO NOT use option 3 to initialize the HDD. 4. Re-boot PC and ready to serve.
