[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Help -- Hard Disk Low Level Format

yylu@athena.mit.edu (Ya Yan Lu) (08/24/89)

Hi,
   I have just bought a 80286 PC and begin to explore the world of PC.
Unfortunately, I stupidly made a low level format for the hard disk
with the wrong parameters. After I get the right parameters (numbers of 
cylinders, heads, etc), I followed the mannuel to use debug as:
     A> DEBUG
      -g=cc00:5
Then I changed the parameter to the right ones, had a low level format
for hard disk C. After that, I used FDISK to have the partition for DOS.
Then I try to do:
     A> FORMAT C:
It seems working. But when I try the "dir" for C, it says "not ready error
...".  Does anyone have some idea what might be wrong? By the way, I am
using DOS version 3.10, which may be too old.
   Thanks in advance!