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old hard disk on a 286

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I'm looking for a program that i used to have long, long time ago in my first 286 computer. I remember only that i had to run it before i shut down the computer and it had something to do whit the hard drive and preventing damage to it. I mean a old hard drive (not IDE). (sorry for the bad english)

Name: Tom
Date: February 13, 2002 at 10:48:57 Pacific

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You're talking about "park". This would park the read/write head at the end of the HD. I'll check around here and see if I still have it on an old floppy. Tom

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YES!!! that's it, i was only 9 when i had that computer and after that i've only owned "modern" computers. So.... But thank you very much, at least i know what to look for

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