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In article <789094611snz@apowell.demon.co.uk>
           Ashley@apowell.demon.co.uk "Ashley Powell" writes:

> I ran an IDE drive detect program which someone kindly emailed me, and it
> told me that the drive was 654 cylinders, 4 heads, and 32 sectors.  As
> the drive still did not boot up C I took the final resort (probably a bad
> move :( ) and reformatted using the MS-DOS format command.  The thing will
> still not boot from C.
> 
> When I boot up from floppy and run MSD, it reports the following:
> 
> 
> Drive  Type                                  Free Space  Total Size
> -----  ------------------------------------  ----------  ----------
> 
>   C:   Fixed Disk, CMOS Type 255                    34M         40M
>          648 Cylinders, 4 Heads
>          512 Bytes/Sector, 32 Sectors/Track
>        CMOS Fixed Disk Parameters
>          654 Cylinders, 4 Heads
>          32 Sectors/Track

So what are your CMOS settings - 648 or 654? I'd be inclined to (1) set them
so that MSD reports the same from each section of the report. Then check
you've actually got a BIOS on the hard disc (have you done a full DOS
installation?) - look for the .sys hidden files with something like XTree
Gold. Then check you've used FDISK to set C: as the active partition.

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Mike Fleming (aka Mike the Bike, DF, BeeGee, hey you)

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