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Article #8207Re: puzzler
From: Phil Ngai
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1989 01:00
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1989 01:00
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In article <9205@hoptoad.uucp> shell@hoptoad.UUCP (Shelly Culbertson) writes:
|Well, yesterday it suddenly developed an inability to boot from the hard
|drive. When I turn it on, I can watch it check the RAM, and it tells me
|there are 0 verified errors on the fixed disk (both of these the same as
|it's always been), and then the system hangs. No prompt. The only keystrokes
Can you do a chkdsk after booting from floppy? Have you tried doing
a "sys" from the floppy? Have you tried any of the disk testing
programs, such as spinrite or dm?
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Phil Ngai, phil@diablo.amd.com {uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil
AT&T Unix System V.4: Berkeley Unix for 386 PCs!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mephisto!ncar!ames!amdcad!diablo!phil From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: puzzler Message-ID: <28287@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 7 Dec 89 01:00:13 GMT References: <9205@hoptoad.uucp> Sender: news@amdcad.AMD.COM Reply-To: phil@diablo.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) Distribution: usa Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Sunnyvale CA Lines: 15