Kees-

Thanks for info! I chose LBA, and found some old info on the hard drive
that said to set the PreComp and LandZ entries at 0. I also did an
fdisk/mbr on it at some point. With all that, it works! I'm not sure if the
fdisk/mbr had anything to do with that since I had previously removed and
reinstalled DOS partitions using the FDISK command. Thanks again!

Gary Kaucher



At 01:28 AM 11/17/99 +0100, you wrote:
>You should choose LBA (all hdd's sized 504 mb and up) in
>very rare cases Large it does matter which one you choose
>although the Bios doesn't give you a error message. Also
>check if the auto-detect gives the right size of the HD or
>if you can enter the specs of the hd manually and the right
>size is reported after that if not get a BIOS update which
>is adviceable anyway because of y2k problems.
>
>Kees Kouwen.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: G Kaucher
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 7:59 PM
>Subject: [PCBUILD] Can't Boot with Hard
>Drive-"Initialization Error"
>
>I removed a working Seagate 850 MB HDD from an old computer
>and installed
>it in another old computer (1995) that is using and Award
>Bios. The BIOS
>has an autodetect ability, and gives me three option; "LBA,
>NORMAL, and
>LARGE" for the "HDD geometry." It doesn't seem to matter
>which one I
>choose. After choosing the "geometry" I FDISK the HDD, and
>make a an active
>primary partition. After that, I do a format (format c: /v
>/s). Regardless
>of what I do, I still can't seem to boot from the HDD. It
>goes thru the
>memory test, flips to the "next page" and gives me a message
>"hit CTRL to
>boot from a floppy" for a short time, and then gives me a
>message "INIT ERR
>Hit "ENTER" to reboot. I tried installing DOS 6.22 to see if
>that would
>make any differnce, but it didn't. I would appreciate any
>advice. Thanks
>
>Gary Kaucher
>
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