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Re: Invalid media type - Disk Question

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From: Simon Child
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 00:00

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Martin Bloomfield wrote in message
<$Gk9VIAEzPE3EwSF@bloomf.demon.co.uk>...

>After long service the D: hard drive has packed up on me.
>When accessing D: I get error message ----
>        Invalid media type reading drive D
>        Abort, Retry, Fail?
>
>What can I do to try and rescue the disk, before declaring it well
>and truly stuffed.


If I wan't concerned about any data on the drive I would try using fdisk
to remove and then recreate partitions, and then try to reformat it
(after checking cables, connectors, BIOS settings, etc).

Someone talked a while ago about zeroing the beginning of a drive, but I
don't know about that.

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