Help with old MS-Dos system

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elbac

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Hello everybody, and thanks in advance for any help any of you may provide.

So, I have a 1992 486 running MS-DOS, and a couple months ago it started acting out. There were warnings of no disk found or corrupt file system and the pc didn't boot.

Usually, reinstalling DOS solved the problem, but now, the hdd (a 128MB 40 pin flash drive) is not recognized by the system.

I can boot into a win 1995 boot disk, but when i run fdisk to find it, it says no fixed disks are present.

I know there are some possible origins for this problem, but i suspect the disk is gone, and I can't find another anywhere.

Assuming the 40 pin IDE por is still "alive" and the disk is the problem, I bought a 40 pin to sata adapter. The adater seems to work fine, and the disk spins. But, when I run fdisk, still nothing is found.

I've tried formating the disk with all file types, formating and creating small partitions, but to no avail.

Is there anything anyone
could recommend as a possibe next step?

Thank you so much for your time.
 
Have you tried RMA? /s

Sounds like the flash drive finally croaked, given the behavior it appears that it had been progressively failing and reinstallation masked the problem. A lot of people suggest compactflash for DOS/3.1 retro boxes, if it was newer such as Win98+ I'd more suggest a modern SSD and using an IDE to SATA adapter just so you have things like TRIM and internal wear algorithms that don't exist when simply using a flash module on the end of an IDE cable.
 
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