NEC portable HD problem

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From: Daniel Alan Fleming
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 1990 20:36

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Word has gotten around the company that someone is having trouble
with a NEC Multispeed HD portable.  I thought the net would be
a good place to look for a solution.  Oh yeah, I believe this 
is an MS/DOS machine, but since this is friend-of-a-friend-of-a...

The Story:  This guy bought this NEC portable from someone that 
works here at Days Inns.  Unfortunately, the person selling the
system was unable to find the operating system disks.  The person
that bought the machine is now having hard drive problems and 
doesn't have the diagnostics to check it.  It could be a hard
drive problem, it could be a controller problem.  I haven't 
looked at the system, so it might be that general parts are 
usable, however, he doesn't want to spend the money on a hard
drive or controller until he is sure that is the problem.

Does anyone on the net have advice/experience to help?

Please respond via email as I don't regularly read this newsgroup. 

-Alan
{uunet}!gatech.edu!daysinns!alanf

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From: alanf@daysinns.UUCP (Daniel Alan Fleming)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: NEC portable HD problem
Message-ID: <670@daysinns.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 90 20:36:34 GMT
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Organization: Days Inns of America
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