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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: puzzler
Message-ID: <28287@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 7 Dec 89 01:00:13 GMT
References: <9205@hoptoad.uucp>
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In article <9205@hoptoad.uucp> shell@hoptoad.UUCP (Shelly Culbertson) writes:
|Well, yesterday it suddenly developed an inability to boot from the hard
|drive.  When I turn it on, I can watch it check the RAM, and it tells me
|there are 0 verified errors on the fixed disk (both of these the same as
|it's always been), and then the system hangs.  No prompt.  The only keystrokes

Can you do a chkdsk after booting from floppy? Have you tried doing
a "sys" from the floppy? Have you tried any of the disk testing
programs, such as spinrite or dm?



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