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From: rarcher@anomaly.sbs.com (Robert Archer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Woes
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Date: 13 Jun 90 00:46:46 GMT
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In article <90160.185842H40@psuvm.psu.edu> H40@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>Can someone out there give me a hand? I'm installing a 40 meg Miniscribe (MS845
>0) hard drive into an XT Turbo, but I keep getting the message "Disk Error" dur
>ing boot-up. The system never even activates the floppy before I get this messa
>ge. I've checked the cables and am now playing around with jumpers (on a Wester
>n Digital RLL controler). Am I missing something obvious? Thanks in advance for
> any desperately needed help.

Does the machine boot if you put a system disk in A:?
BOb

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