Check your jumpers, your cables, and BIOS settings.
Write down how everything is set now, and where cables go, etc.
If everything looks "OK" time to go back to square one...

Then:
Unplug all your data cables (while the computer is off)
to all other drives in the system except the floppy.
(During testing it is OK to leave all power connections
hooked up unless a drive has a power problem. If so,
you could repeat all this with them removed later...)

Check the BIOS to see if it is set to AUTO for the
Primary Master port. If not, write down what it is set for
and see if it has an "AUTO" setting and change it to that.
Install ONLY the "dead drive" on the Primary Master port.
Properly jumper it as a "stand alone" or "Master" drive,
(depends on the drive manufacturer and model number...)

Then try booting from a Boot disk floppy.
See what happens.

                                                 Rick Glazier


From: "James Aaserud" <[log in to unmask]>
> If I have a Hard drive that I can't access because I've some
how lost the FAT is there a way to at least re-write it. I've tried
Fdisk but it comes back with the error 'no fixed disk present'
I've tried booting to floppy but the boot disk assigns C as the
ramdrive. Invalid media type message is the closest to the
drive as I can get. Is this drive a paper weight now?

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