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From: jb@aablue.UUCP (John B Scalia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: puzzler
Summary: Sorry to bother everyone, but the lovely e-mail bounced
Keywords: disk problems
Message-ID: <1156@aablue.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 89 16:02:07 GMT
References: <9214@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: jb@aablue.UUCP (John B Scalia)
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Organization: A A Blueprint Co., Inc. - Akron, OH
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This is in response to Shelly Culbertson request for help, I tried e-mail
3 times with different paths and have given up. Please forgive the 
intrusion and you may hit ^N now...


In article <9214@hoptoad.uucp> shell@hoptoad.UUCP (Shelly Culbertson) writes:
>I first posted yesterday about my machine's refusal to boot from the hard
>disk.  This is a continuation of that situation.
>

I tried to get this to you on your request but, oh well. Your first 
description and later followup have me thinking that your disk's 
partition table is mismarked. Possibly, your C: drive partition is
no longer marked *ACTIVE* and possibly has the wrong partition I.D.
marked in its space.

You can check if the partition is marked active by using fdisk or any good
hard disk utility program (We like Everex's; it's easier to use.) It 
wouldn't hurt to tell fdisk to mark your first partition active, 
irregardless of what is says it is already and try to boot again.

As to the partition I.D., I'm not aware of any Dos programs that give
you the ability to check or change that, though I could be mistaken.
However, a wrong I.D. should not stop booting irregardless. Programs
like chkdsk, etc. will complain about a possible non-Dos file system
and ask if they should proceed, however. 

Hope this helps,
jb@aablue.UUCP
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