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From: mjlst3@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Mikes Magik Shoppe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: XT hard drive booting problem (corrupted system files?)
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Date: 21 Sep 90 13:45:04 GMT
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In article <20404@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> duvalj@bionette.cgrb.orst.edu (Joe Duval) writes:
>Netters,
>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

Since the damage has already been done,
boot from floppy (being sure that it is the version that you currently have
                  on your pc),
run the Norton Disk Doctor again,
select Common Solutions,
select Make disk bootable
select Drive C

Assuming that there are enough good blocks to write the system programs,
this should take care of the problem.  If not, I have heard that spinwrite can
do a non destructive low level format and make bad blocks good again, if 
this is the case, have it do that and then run NDD again.

Michael J. LeWinter


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