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From: pguhatha@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Puragra Guhathakurta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: hard disk and DOS 3.0/3.2 problems
Message-ID: <1661@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 7 Feb 88 01:28:16 GMT
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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Keywords: hard disk - reformat?


A problem occured while I was using a SIMTEL program DESK130
(a desktop utility) while it was rearranging my 30Mb harddisk
for better performance or whatever.
The result was that my hard disk could not be rebooted.
So I rebooted with my DOS 3.00 diskette from drivve A:
The hard disk is formatted with 3.2.

Now I cannot reboot the hard disk without formatting it seems,
the Norton utilities report that the hard disk is fine in all
repects, system files, FAT's etc.

When I bring up the system under 3.0,
I cannot format a diskette using my 3.2 utilities.

A solution could be to check and write the system (3.2 preferably)
on the hard disk again. 

Does anyone know how to write only the boot-stuff on disk without
reformatting the hard disk? Or any other suggestions? I seem to
have myself found in a catch-22 situation.

Peter Teuben
(i'm using this account from a friend, you can reply to him)