Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!gatech!prism!ce1zzes From: ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: FDISK Summary: FDISK on 256k PC? Message-ID: <25307@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 1 Apr 91 03:54:47 GMT References: <1991Mar23.041821.29165@cs.mcgill.ca> <15744@mendip.UUCP> <5955@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1991Mar29.225110.22642@panix.uucp> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 36 schuster@panix.uucp (Michael Schuster) writes: >In article <5955@trantor.harris-atd.com> sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes: >>In article <15744@mendip.UUCP> mhr@mendip.UUCP (MHR {who?}) writes: >> Why is FDISK hard to use? In my experience, it is just like >>any other external DOS command. Such as FORMAT. >FDISK is VERY EASY to use. you just type "fdisk" and keep hitting ENTER >until your disk is formatted and bootable. FDISK isn't easy on a true-blue 256k PC I'm trying to resuscitate. I'm stuck. FDISK can't read the hard drive. I'm using: IBM PC with 256k on m'bd, 256k on multifunction card. Unknown HD controller, IBM floppy controller. I've been successful so far in resuscitating the dead system, ravaging two other PC's for spare parts, but the hard drive still will not work. I low-level formatted the drive on a PC compatible using MSDOS 3.2, then booted up under PC-DOS 3.3 and formatted the drive as bootable. I then transferred the drive to the PC, and tinkered with jumpers until the 1701 error went away. It refuses to boot. I've tried swapping HD controllers, motherboards, memory cards. I've even got the Sams Photofacts for this thing, but it apparently was not written with the HD in mind; nothing refers to it. The system will not boot from the hard drive, and FDISK reports "Cannot read fixed disk." What am I missing? Besides "junk the machine and buy a 386," any advice to give me? Eric -- Eric Sheppard Georgia Tech | "Of course the US Constitution isn't Atlanta, GA | perfect; but it's a lot better than what ARPA: ce1zzes@prism.gatech.edu | we have now." -Unknown uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!ce1zzes