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
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