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VK3EUB > HELP 04.09.05 17:41l 67 Lines 2078 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 310_VK3EUB
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Subj: Re: Hard drive
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From: VK3EUB@VK3BBS.#MEL.VIC.AUS.OC
To : HELP@WW
VK3EUB/TPK 1.83e Msg #:310 Local Date: 03-09-2005 Time: 4:21 PM (05:21 UTC)
From : VK3EUB@VK3APC.#MEL.VIC.AUS.OC
To : HELP@WW
>From: ZS1BA@ZS0STB.TBG.WCP.ZAF.AF
>To : HELP@WW
>What I want to do is I have two Hard drives 3gig in size but the one's
>disk is defective and the nother one is that the elecronic side is
>defective.
>
>I would like to swap the two drives so I cuold have one disk working.
>
>Cheers
>73
>Albert
>
>73 - Albert, ZS1BA @ ZS0STB
>
>Message timed: 11:53 on 2005-Aug-30
Hi
Albert did not say what the defect with the disk was.
Thought i would send out an old bull by VK3ASF, someone may find
the info usefull.
Brian
Msg #41964 Type:B For:HDD @VKNET From:VK5ASF Date:991022 Length:1572
Subject: RE: Hard drive problem
VK5IE wrote:
>I have a 420 mb hard drive which when avtivated asked for a boot disk, it
>will not proceed with out.
>Once booted with a boot disk it comes up with C:\ and from there on in am
>able to acces data on the drive.
>I have been told that possibly there is something wrong with track 0.
If there is a fault on track zero, a format c: /s will fail, with an error
message telling you that track zero is unuseable (or something like that).
However, it may have been formatted WITHOUT an operating system - try sys c:
and see if that helps. Its also possible that the C: partition is NOT marked
active (with fdisk). It should be, to be bootable.
If all that fails, and it does have a bad track zero, I have managed to
rescue several hard disks by putting a small (say 8-10MB) non-DOS partition
at the start of the drive, to get over the bad tracks, and then putting my
DOS partition on. (You'll lose all existing data when you do this).
To create the non-DOS partition I used (yes, you guessed it) Linux boot disks.
Just start the normal Linux install, when you get to the partitioning step
just create the very small partition I mentioned, then cancel out of the
install.
Good Luck!
Steve
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