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From: brian@cvl.umd.edu (Brian Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Reformatting a HD
Message-ID: <3607@cvl.umd.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 89 03:59:42 GMT
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Organization: Center for Automation Research, Univ. of Md.
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Hello all.

I have a small problem that I'm hoping someone can help me with.

Recently, the hard disk of a friend of mine crashed, and indicated
that the boot track was trashed.  Not having any neato-keen utilities
available, we decided to go ahead and try to reformat (nothing on 
the disk was critical to him).  Well, to make a long story short,
it didn't work.  

Here are the particluars:
	MiniScribe 40 Meg 
	Western-Digital controller (MFM I believe)
	Kaypro 10Mhz XT clone
	Dos 3.x (not 3.3 tho')
We tried to use the program on the controller board (the g=c800:5 trick),
but when it attempted to format, it exited with completion code 80.
Nothing in any of the documantation explained this, so we are in the
dark about what to do.  I'm sorry the info is somewhat sketchy, but we
were doing this at 2 in the morning over the phone.  

On a different note, he called the people he bought the computer from
(they also did the setup) and they indicated that a) yes, there had
been a very large number of complaints about this drive and, b) no,
there was nothing that they could do for him, because the system was
2 months out of warranty.  From the way the story was related to me,
it seemed like these people knew that there was going to be problems
with this drive, but they were hoping that it would happen out of 
warranty.  They were kind enough to give my friend the address of a
place to get the drive fixed (at $100 an hour, and an estimated
3 1/2 hours to repair).  Is there any way to get at least _some_ of
the money for repairs from these people?

Thank you very much for any assistance.

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