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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Strange DOS problem
Message-ID: <3268@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 88 20:25:20 GMT
References: <1443@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Mr. Video's Hangout
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In article <1443@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncperson@ndsuvax.UUCP (Missing Person) writes:
<Last night I was looking through some floppy disks and at one point
<DOS insisted that the disk I had put in drive a: didn't have any files on it.
<i.e. : 
<Volume in drive a: has no lable
<Derectory of a:\file not found
<
<   When it told me this, it hadn't even spun the drive. It just kept 
<insisting that the disk(s) in a: didn't have any files until I re-booted.
<Anyone ever seen this problem?  My guess is that my controller has gone
<bad. 

We have had this problem when a diskette ended up with a little different
boot record format.  It cause an error that wouldn't let us use the drive
again until we rebooted.  Maybe you had such a diskette.
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