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From: butterworth@mscf.med.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Hard Disk Problems - II
Message-ID: <133@mscf.med.upenn.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 89 16:28:58 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Med School Computer Facility
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Recently, a couple of our older machines (XTs with 20 meg. hard drives) have
been failing.  Some of the messages I've seen include:

	"Seek error reading drive C"
	"General failure error reading drive C"
	
and, when I tried to make the best of a bad job,

	"Formatting...  disk unsuitable for system disk"

Can anything be done with these old workhorses?  I know that disks eventually
wear out but I don't know enough about the hardware side of things to know 
whether or not they can be (temporarily?) fixed through software.

Thanks in advance.


Internet: butterworth@a1.mscf.upenn.edu