Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord
From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard disk unit 0 failure
Message-ID: <4396@bwdls58.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 90 13:45:57 GMT
References: <1990Sep17.162754.462@mccc.uucp>
Sender: mlord@bwdls58.UUCP
Reply-To: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
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In article <1990Sep17.162754.462@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>I just (physically) replaced a 72MB Micropolis with a 190MB Maxtor
>XT-2190 HD, same cables, same everything.
>	"Hard disk unit 0 failure"

Err umm.. perhaps the obvious solution.. hit F1 (or whatever) to continue,
boot DOS from a diskette, and then run a low level format on the drive..

My drives gave me the same error until after the first low level format.
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