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From: ppa@hpldola.HP.COM (Paul P. Austgen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help!  PC no longer recognized hard disk
Message-ID: <11250108@hpldola.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Nov 89 16:33:33 GMT
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Check the CMOS ram for disk type for the hard disk.  It could be
wrong.  You also may have a bad boot record, which is on the
first sector of the first track.