John
I have 3 of the same
laptops, and 5 hdd, the only one I am having any kind of trouble loading an
O/S onto is this 1.35. No matter what pc I use I still end up with the same
cannot read fdisk. The hdd is a toshiba and i guess its so old that they have
no support in the archives. I have used CHKDSK and SCANDISK. They report no
errors.I tried SYS C to copy startup files but that didnt work either. Will
it be okay to try the undocumented switch if I format the hdd by using a
second multibay as a slave?
Thanks John Stoker
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The problem occurs at this point. After pressing enter I get Error
reading fixed disk. Then I it goes back to A prompt. Also it will not accept
a boot disk. I have to use a 98se start up disk. When I use a "boot" disk I
get the message Hard disk failed.I have tried replacing with the boot disk
after using the start up disk but this gives me a list of files from the
config.sys that are missing or corrupted. then i get warning hma is not
available additional low memory will be used finally I end at file missing
or corrupted:FDISK Type the name of the Command Interpreter. I am baffeled

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Go to the website of the hard drive maker and get the Diagnostic Utility
for the drive. The utility is usually a self booting disk that provides
diagnostics and a write-zeroes-to-disk utility (a pseudo low level formatter

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