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** Help! Can't boot from hard disk ! **

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From: MA NGAI LING
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 13:33
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Dear netters,

        This is posted on behalf of my very ;-( husband.  Can someone
please help?

        The problem started when he tries to boot up his 486 PC compatible.
(1)     Power up, BIOS loaded, memory check, A:, B:, C: drives checked,
system then go back to check A: and hang.

(2)     Boot up from A: drive and able to access everything on C: drive

(3)     use scan 8.6v93  --> no virus found

(4)     used PC Tools 7.0, discovered invalid FAT entry.  Fixed.

(5)     Reboot, same result as step (1).

(6)     Reboot, and enter SETUP.  Found the following messages:

        "Diskette Drive 1 Failure"
        "System configuration invalid.  Review first page"

**  From the above observation, my husband concluded that the hard disk
configuration is incorrect/corrupted.  Current settings are:

	HDD : Type 47, cyl=1024,HD=12,PRE=-1, LZ=1024, Sec=17, size=102
	
*************************************************************************

	Can someone suggest what the setting should be for a 105MB HD?
Or what could be the problem?  Please note that he can boot from A:
and can see C: once the machine is running.

	Please email reply as I don't read this group (no flame please!).
Thanks a million in advance. 

Ida
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From: b130778@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (MA NGAI LING)
Subject: ** Help!  Can't boot from hard disk ! **
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