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You will need to remove the HD from the 1000 and install in your pc. You must boot from the SpinRite CD. If it you boot from windows, it will try to setup the HD and all is lost. So just remove your main windows HD so that does not happen. Now if spinrite hangs in the 5% area your HD is toast. This is where they fail if its a non-recoverable. Run spintite in maintance mode. It will switch to recovery when it detects a pproblem.

Once it has finished use DD and copy the first 30meg of the HD, instruction in the wiki section. Then you will have the OS and can reload a new HD if needed. Now some of the later 1000 use a different set of files than the early ones. So it's possiable that the OS you get may not boot a 1000v2. So you may want to get a copy of all boot tracks just incase you have a later one. Which is the same one used on a 2200.

If by chance these are a eary 1000v1, the OS may be in flash ram. If this is the case you only need to install a new/clean HD.