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From: akcs.larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Hard Disk Problems
Message-ID: <[253dbdf4:144.1]comp.sys.ibm.pc;1@nstar.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 89 12:28:50 GMT
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>I've noticed something about my 286 at home that could be a problem.  After
>the box is turned off for more than 5 minutes or so, it has problems booting
>back up.  The drive makes all sorts of noises - heads popping and such - and
>the bios says the drive could'nt be initialized.

I had the same problems on one of my machines due to what is called
"stiction" in the 4051 hard drive.  Sometimes after sitting the drive
would not spin up - while after a couple of minutes it would work
just fine.