Hard drive initialization error on boot???

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From: Bill Richards
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:55

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Any help here would definitely be appreciated. I have a 286 clone machine with
a Western Digital 40Meg drive. Often lately, when booting up, I get an error
upon initialization of the hard drive controller. The disk does not spin up.
I can get it going by taking off the cover and "fiddling" with the drive and
controller card. Is this an easily fixable problem? Is it the drive or the
card? I suspect the drive. Someone suggested I re-install DOS, which I will try
tonight... any other suggestions? BTW, the drive sounds like R2D2 when it's
being accessed, which may or may not be related to my troubles...

Any help would be *greatly* appreciated... thanks to whoever can help...

							-bill richards-
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Bill Richards MTS					Phone: (919) 248-1452
Microelectronics Center of North Carolina		Fax:   (919) 248-1455
PO Box 12889

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From: richards@mcnc.org (Bill Richards)
Subject: Hard drive initialization error on boot???
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:55:17 GMT
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