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  • Subject: Re: [BL] BasLinux Digest, Vol 66, Issue 13
  • Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:51:12 +1000 (EST)

Have you checked the power supply thoroughly? If it's even very slightly dodgy it might be enough to run a good drive happily but cause a slightly sticky one to fail on boot. Drives which have sat unused for a while may have become sticky.

Cheers, Rob

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

The BIOS does detect the hard drive, and the CMOS settings has the hard
drive as the primary boot device.


I'll have to try the boot floppy and see if it boots from the hard drive. If
not, I'll search around my parts bin for another drive.

Just about any size laptop drive would work (30MB or up).

I have run into lots of hard drives that won't boot. We fixed one
recently by typing fdisk /mbr from DOS - partition table was messed up.
Others simply have wornout boot sectors.


I think the boot sector is either worn out or corrupt on both hard drives,
but this computer apparently wasn't used very often and only had one install
of Windows 95 on it, so I don't see why it would be.

I wonder if they just oxidize with age. I have had 'good' drives given to
me and as soon as I partitioned, formatted, and copied files, the boot
sector went bad. 9 of one batch of 10 were bad or went bad, 1-2GB.


Sindi


Joe





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