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  • From: Rob Heard <rhea4446 AT mail.usyd.edu.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] laptop for linux - formatting problem
  • Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:08:26 +1000 (EST)

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> Syschk finds the drive but says it is not formatted.
> Fdisk says there are no partitions. We partition with PQMagic before
> that. Repartitioned with fdisk. (Tried MS-DOS 6.22, DR-DOS, Win95 and
> Win98 DOS). Seems to work at first but then displays file names wrong.
> Command.com becomes commaod!.! or the like (consistently). Can't find
> directories or renames them oddly.
>

I once had a machine that did the same sort of thing. The nice tech
person at work said the hard disk controller was defective.

Cheers, Rob




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