On 30 Mar 98 at 18:56, Tim Lider wrote:

> At 01:42 PM 3/30/98 , you wrote:
>
> >On 29 Mar 98 at 19:58, Kevin Walker wrote:
>
> >> When I try to access the drive after first booting with a Dos 6.22
> >> SYS Disk to drive A:  I then try to access C:\ Message says Invalid
> >> Media Type
>
>   When you get "Invalid Media Type Reading Drive C" does this happen when
> you do a directory of the C Drive? If so this means the Boot record is
> corrupted and you need to reformat the hard drive.  There are ways to
> recover the data off of the hard drive, although i will not get into that.
>
>   All you need to do is do a high-level format of the hard drive.  This
> will fix the problem on that end.
>
> >  This sounds, to me, like the drive is probably permanently damaged.
> >Probably cheaper to replace than to try to repair.
>
>   I do not think so.  Although there could be a bad sector on the boot
> record, this is unlikely. I have seen a bad sector on the boot record before.

  Tim's experience with this kind of thing is far wider than mine; he
is almost certainly correct about this.

David G