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From: 00cchall@bsu-ucs.uucp (NoWhere BBS and Bar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: HELP!!!  Hard Drive Problems on AT!!!
Message-ID: <47348@bsu-ucs.uucp>
Date: 8 Nov 90 19:08:50 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's
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HELP!  Everyone!  My hard drive needs help badly...

Here's the situation:

     o The drive is a 30 megabyte Tandon hard drive
     o I've been running my BBS on it for two months
     o I think it's quite old
     o The configuration is 695 cylinders / 5 heads / MFM
     o It "DIED" a couple of nights ago
     o I tried Norton Disk Doctor and it messed it up more
     o I LLF'ed it and it started to boot again
     o It stopped working again

Here's what it gave me:

     o Most of the time:  "No ROM BASIC, System Halted"
       (It's an 80286 VLSI 12 megahertz motherboard, AMI BIOS (11/89),
       Western Digital XT-GEN controller, Multi-Drive II floppy controller,
       1.44 M drive and 360 K drive, 1200 baud generic modem, Compaq CGA
       card)
     o Sometimes (earlier in the problem) it would start to boot, but then
       stop cold and lock up
     o Other times it would actually boot, but find a bunch of errors right
       away:

            - "Seek error on drive C"
            - "General failure error on drive D"
            - "General failure error on drive E"
            - "General failure error on drive F"

     o Norton said:  "Your hard drive has an invalid partition info table"

Any suggestions will be considered!!!!!!!

                                                    Chael Hall
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