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Hello David,
At 01:42 PM 3/30/98 , you wrote:
>On 29 Mar 98 at 19:58, Kevin Walker wrote:
Although I am late in this discussion I will try to answer the original
message writers answer.
>> I did a low level format [which I have performed many times before on
>> other Drives] .
> Low-level formatting of IDE/EIDE drives is generally not
>recommended by manufacturers. A few have utilities for this posted
>on their web pages; NONE endorse using the well-known ROM routine
>accessible from DEBUG.
>> 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.
Good luck and regards,
Tim Lider
Advanced Data Solutions
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