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From: barnett@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Karey Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Miniscribe Hard Drive Problem....m
Message-ID: <7701@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 23:22:55 GMT
References: <1991May29.034736.6232@eng.umd.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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In article <1991May29.034736.6232@eng.umd.edu> choudhry@eng.umd.edu (Zafar Ullah Choudhry) writes:
>
>       I have a Miniscribe 3425 (21MB) drive. I formatted it with Speed Store
>low level formatter. The partition created is also boot active and system files
>are also on the disk. Now, when I try to boot from this drive (drive C) on my
>PC XT, system checks the hard drive but due to some reason returns back to
>drive A and doesn't boot from the HD. Originally, I have ST225 in my system
>and I have simply removed its cable and connected them to the new HD, no system
>configuration switches are changed. Could anybody tell me, is there some thing
> wrong with the controller or there is some other reason. (I also tried Norton
>Disk Doctor to make the drive bootable but it didn't work). Other than this
>boot problem, disk works normally. I can read/write and exectue files.
>
You might have track 0 on the hard drive physically bad; hence, you won't
be able to boot from the hard drive.  If by chance track 0 _is_ physically
bad, you might want to re-partition the disk, creating a partition that
encompasses the bad track.  Then, create a partition(s) on the rest of
the disk, setting the first partition (of the new ones) as the active,
booting partition.  This should work.