Hi gang,

Hope I am posting this correctly.
Love the help you all provide
learned so many possibilites.
First time I am posting.

I have a 486 Gateway 200 33dx--approximate date of 1990.
I reformatted my 212 mb hard drivefor the first time
It has no bad sectors .
Everything works well
Boot floppy is 5 1/4
second floppy is 3 1/2.
After formatting, computer now tells me I have a hard disk controller failure.
I put the hd on another computer and  that disk is fine.
So i know it is not the hard drive, I even tried another ribbon.
This HD is on IDE 1, I even tried putting it on IDE 2 with the same result.
I attempted to install DOS  from the second floppy, and it installed despite the failure issue,
where I received a please press f1 to continue or F2 to go to setup.
After that attempt to install DOS, thge error came up again, nbut this time I could notcontiue despite hitting f1 as instructed and also It now tells me I have no boot drive.  All was working well until I  did an unconditional format to the hard drive.  The computer had Dos and win 3.11 on it in rem.,  Never had a days grief with the machine till now.  I do not beieve i blew out the mother board, and we already discoverd the HD is still  fine as well as the ribbon.  I checked my BIOS settings which are set for me to manually put the drive specs in and all seems ok.  WHAT IS HAPPENING.  HELP ME PLEASE.

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