burkett@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Edward W Burkett) (01/17/89)
Could someone give a me a brief description of where the media discriptor
is located on a disk (hard or floppy).
I have a hard drive and somehow the media descriptor was changed :-(
(ST-238)
I ran a modified version of command.com that had a patch
**** that changed the echo off as the default. It worked fine ****
on the floppy drive but obbviously not on my hard drive.
(command.com was modified with a program called SHELLFIX.EXE)
OK ....... a dumb thing to do........
My drive still works fine but when I run chkdsk it warns me that it may
not be a DOS disk. I tell it to continue and everything is fine.
If I run PC Toolkit, it tries to read the disk and tells me I might have a
damaged FAT and will not continue.
HDCHEK, of the HDTEST package, tells me that it has an unknown media descriptor.
Is this going to be a problem. I would like to fix the problem if I can
without having to reformat my HD. Is it possible to edit the FAT
I'm backed up to the day before......so I can afford to play.
If nothing else I would like to learn what happened.
Email responses or post for all.
burkett@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Edward W Burkett)