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From: als@hpwarqp.hp.com (Al Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Hard Drive needs warmup???
Keywords: warmup, disk, drive, hard
Message-ID: <1556@hpwala.wal.hp.com>
Date: 4 Jan 91 15:33:08 GMT
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In article <kshaffer.662913738@modcomp> kshaffer@modcomp.uucp (Ken Shaffer) writes:
>My brother's system when booted cold will not boot from his hard disk.
>If he let's it sit and warm up (leaving the invalid boot device message
>system then boots from the hard disk.
>
  I had the same problem.  It was cured by reformatting the disk.  I'd
  suggest using SPINRITE or similar.  I've had good luck with IAU shareware.

  Probably explained by thermal expansion compensating for wear-in drift.
  


Al