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From: daves@oldcolo.UUCP (Dave Sawtell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Intermittent hard drive problem -- help?!
Message-ID: <270a6c7a-2049.1ibmpc-1@oldcolo.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 90 12:10:02 GMT
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My theory is that the part of the disk that stores the partition data
may not be storing the partition data accurately.  If you know what
the partition data on your disk should be, run fdisk (while the disk
isn't working) and see if the data on the disk is what it should be.

If the data is not correct, the only solution I can think of to your
problem is to reconstruct the partition data using fdisk every time
the disk goes down. (If you do this, make sure you do it accurately
becuase a slight error can couse big problems.)