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From: barnett@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Karey Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard disk poops out when "warm"
Message-ID: <7760@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 91 23:50:02 GMT
References: <1991Jun3.032541.20012@informix.com>
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Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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In article <1991Jun3.032541.20012@informix.com> robs@infmx.informix.com (Robert Schneider) writes:
>
>A question for all you hard disk mavens:
>
>I've got a Bleeding Edge Model D 4.77 MHZ PC, with
>a 30 mb hard drive.  I've noticed something fairly
>peculiar as follows:
>
>When "cold" e.g. freshly booted, I can access the hard
>drive no problem.  After about 5 minutes or so, I begin
>to get seek errors.  No matter what I do, I can't get at
>the damn drive.  Running 'fdisk' off drive A, I am
>told that the FAT is gone and that there is no partition
>on C.  Of course, this is not the case.  If I power off
>the PC and *immediately* turn it back on, drive C is
>still unavailable.  If I wait an hour or so, and then power
>up, the problem repeats itself as originally stated, e.g.
>5 minutes of pleasure followed by infinite pain.

  You might want to try re-low level formatting the hard drive.