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