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From: dowling@oasys.dt.navy.mil (John Dowling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Hard Disk Drive Problem
Message-ID: <6391@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 14 Mar 91 13:38:43 GMT
Reply-To: dowling@oasys.dt.navy.mil (John Dowling)
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Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD
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I've just run into a hard disk problem that I hope someone has some
insight on.  Simply put, the hard drive on my month-old Epson Apex no
longer boots.  The drive worked flawlessly until I turned on the machine
last night. Instead of the familiar C:/ prompt, I received the message
"non-system disk..." and the machine would go no farther.  I turned
the machine off then on again and after 30 seconds of nothing, the boot-up
diagnostic program reported "drive 0 error".  After consulting my manual,
I determined that "drive 0" is the "C" drive.  I then ran the diagnostic
diskette I received with the computer and ran the hard drive tests.
I believe I ran a read, write test on the disk and received the following
error message: "Error code=1702; Write error; Cylinder 614; Head 7;
Sector 1".
Does anybody know what this means?  The only thing I think I could have
done is approximately one week ago I attempted to repartition the drive
into c: and d: drives.  If it makes any difference the drive is 40MB.
Is the situation salvageable by re-formatting the disk or should I just
forget it and exercise my warranty?



				   John Dowling
				   dowling@oasys.dt.navy.mil