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Last night when I was working on my system, I found a bad sector that
one of my files was in.  I unloaded my copy of Stacker 2.0 (with
STACKER -C:), unhid the STACVOL.DSK file, ran Norton Disk Doctor, re
hid the file and rebooted.

Today, another error appeared in the same general area as the first
one when I was using the DOS editor to edit a file, when I started
getting read/write errors.  I quit to DOS only to get a "Cannot load
COMMAND.COM error.  System Halted message".  I rebooted and my
CONFIG.SYS loaded and at the end Stacker loaded again.  The problem
this time it said "ERROR  Volume damaged  (Write protected).  Press
any key to continue..."  I did and the hard drive started making funny
noises (like when you have a bad sector).  Then after about 30
seconds, DOS gave up and said "Bad or missing Command interpreter".  I
seems that another bad sector popped up just in the middle of
COMMAND.COM!

I tried to boot up off a DOS 3.3 floppy (I normally use 5.0) and
couldn't access the hard drive "Illegal drive" or something of that
nature.  I remembered that you couldn't access the drive without
Stacker loaded.  I quickly tried every file on my Staceker disk but
all came to the conclusion that DOS had to recognize it first.

Now I don't know what to do.  I'm stuck to running off a low-density 5
1/4" and a 3 1/5" high density until my drive is working.  Here is the
specs of my system, if that will help:
	386 SX 25mhz clone (shouldn't matter what manufacturer)
	new (3 month) 163 meg IDE hard drive,  (It had a few bad sectors
at about the 3/4s mark on a disk map, but the new error appear nowhere
near them)
	STB (Tseng 4000) Super-VGA monitor
	5.25" low density drive A:
	3.5" high density drive B:
K	4 meg RAM, including base 640k
	Stacker 2.0 (I installed on Wednesday, but I doubt that's the problem)
	
Send all solutions, questions, whatever to "joseph@girtab.usc.edu" or
post them here (I rather that you'd E-mail them, since I don't check
the newsgroups very often)

					Desperately in need of help,

					Jeff Lawson
					joseph@girtab.usc.edu