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From: waldman2@husc8.HARVARD.EDU (Bruce Waldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: partition problems with hard disks
Message-ID: <3185@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 89 04:58:32 GMT
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Reply-To: waldman2@husc8.UUCP (Bruce Waldman)
Organization: Harvard University Science Center   Cambridge, MA
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Recently I found that I was unable to access my 20 mb hard disk
on my Zenith SuperSport 286. If I booted from a floppy, everything
ran fine, but any reference to C:  elicited a message stating I
was using an invalid drive. If I tried to boot from the hard disk,
I was shunted into the SETUP menu and couldn't get out.  The Zenith
service person says I have destroyed my partition.  Could someone
explain to me what actually happened?  Sorry if this is a naive 
question, but I thought partitions were used to access disks with
>30MB or for splitting physical disks into >1 logical disks.  This
is all occurring with Zenith MS-DOS 3.3 Plus.
 
Bruce Waldman, bw@harvarda.bitnet