Murray,
Not to resurrect a dead thread, but: when my Starmax received a new
battery and still wouldn't start because there was no IDE drive
attached, I put in just such an IDE hard drive. The computer started
right up from the Starmax CD. The drive was from a PC, Windows and all.
When the computer sequence reached the process of displaying the
desktop, it automatically "rebuilt the desktop" on the PC drive. (I
believe that I briefly saw a message about PC Exchange or something
similar.) After a very, very long time it finished and the drive was
there with all the files displayed.
Hope this helps,
Bill
Murray Irwin wrote:
>
> Hi all
> Is it possible to get a Starmax to recognise an IDE drive even though it is
> formatted as a PC one?
> What I thought of doing was using Soft PC and having the whole drive as the
> PC one, as it is
> already formatted in its 486.
>
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