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From: mduskis@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Michael Duskis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: FDISK Won't Stick
Message-ID: <20075@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 91 03:10:55 GMT
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           PC Assembly Hair-puller # 63: Hard disk partition failure

Symptoms: Low level format works perfectly.  Drive diagnostics
	report no errors.  FDISK appears to work properly but
	after a re-boot, the partition data disappears.



Sample session:

[diagnostics and low level format done through internal diagnostics]

A> fdisk

[Choose "Create DOS partition"]

[Answer "yes" to create and activate primary partition]

Your computer will now reboot. Strike any key to continue....

[Machine reboots]

A> format c:/s
Invalid drive specification

A> c:
Invalid drive specification

A> fdisk
[Choose "Display partition data"]
No applicable partitions

[Exit fdisk]

A> what is going on, you stupid computer?
bad command or filename

[Grab a baseball bat...]


Does anyone have any suggetions?   Please?   Pretty please with
sugar on top??