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From: duvalj@bionette.cgrb.orst.edu (Joe Duval)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: XT hard drive booting problem (corrupted system files?)
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Date: 20 Sep 90 23:05:15 GMT
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Netters,
  An old XT I have an occasion to use, won't boot from the harddrive anymore.
I can boot from a floppy in A and then get to the harddrive (ST225).  I ran
Norton's Disk Doctor and it did find bad blocks in the space where IBMIO.SYS
was on the disk.  I had it fix (move) them.  Was that a mistake?  And it found
about 7 other bad blocks on the disk that it wanted to mark bad and move the
data from.

After that the machine will still not boot from the hard drive.

I tried running SYS to replace the system files but the old not enough room
error occured.  I did use the same DOS 3.3 disk that was used about a year and
a half ago when I replaced the hard disk in this machine.

I then tried running SPINRITE to see if it could do anything.  Again the machine
will not boot but SPINRITE did recover most if not all of the bad blocks marked
by NDD.

So what can I do know to save this hard drive short of backing up what I can
and reformatting?  Why would this happen in the first place?  The machine is
used once or twice a week AT LEAST and there were no other problems.

Thanks
-Joe
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Joe Duval		duvalj@bionette.cgrb.orst.edu
Losing your temper generally represents the incipient stage of rectal-
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