Adam Lloyd wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> Here is what happens at boot up:
>
> You see the computer POST, summary of computer stats.
>
> Normally you would see
>
> Starting MS-DOS ... <I always see this when I boot with a floppy>
>
> But I don't see that part. The computer just sits at this point.
>
> I believe the hard drive has some bad sectors.
>
> It is very old. Only a 156 meg hard drive!
>
> I have tried formatting the entire drive. Reinstalling DOS 6.22 on it. It
> always does the same thing!
>
> Could this mean there is something wrong with the drive?
>
> If anyone have has suggestions I would love to hear them!
>
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Have you BIOS autodetect the hard drive and then have it do a LL format.
Then boot with the floppy and FDISK/FORMAT and then try re-installing.

Winston

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