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From: hass@f3.n22611.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Scott Hass)
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Subject: HELP: THINKS C: IS D:
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Date: 30 Oct 90 18:19:04 GMT
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In a message of <17 Oct 90 10:15:16>, (Roger.H.Levy) writes:

 >I have an AT&T 6300 with an ST-225 and Adaptec controller that has suddenly
 >refused to boot from the hard disk because it seems to believe that C: is
 >D:.  Apparently the boot process gets as far as reading config.sys since
 >error messages like "C:\BIN\ANSI.SYS NOT FOUND" and "C:\COMMAND.COM NOT
 >FOUND" appear.  If I boot from a floppy and then select C:, I get "GENERAL
 >DISK FAILURE".  However, if I select D:, I can see and access all the files
 >on the drive (which is really C:).  What is likely to have gone wrong and
 >how can I correct it?

Roger,
 
 If you have changed something with you floppy configuration and the system
 thinks that it has three floppy drives you will get that symtom. You can
 either change that back to two floppy drives or change you path to D:.

                        Scott

 
 
 
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