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From: d757@sphinx.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Panic!  Hard drive crash.
Message-ID: <1056@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 09:12:22 EST
Article-I.D.: sphinx.1056
Posted: Thu Jan 15 09:12:22 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Jan-87 07:03:17 EST
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Reply-To: d757@sphinx.UUCP (Lawrence Lerner)
Organization: U Chicago Computation Center
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Don't Panic! (Clever how I got that in isn't it?).  O.k. your problem is not
an uncommon one, as I have worked alot with PC hard drive crashes.
   
The first thing you should do is use the IBM diganostics disk that comes
with your PC_DOS manual.  Use it to check if your hard drive has spots
(bad sectors) or its actually your controller card taht has problems.
Often controller cards may seem to work with certain hard drives and then
crash for no apparent reason.  A fast solution might be to try replacing 
the controller card with another one that you know that works.  For those
taht don't know a controller card is attached by a ribbon cable to the hard
drive from one of the internal slots it if fairly easy to remove.

    Another solution might be to check you dip switch settings (located inside
your machine, and notouriosly difficult to flip) to see if your machine
is setup to read 1 floppy and 1 hard drive.

    I hope this is useful info to all.

-- 
"...nothing kills that does not know ye."
      -Meg Davis, `The Elf Glade' 
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