viggo@freja.dk (Allan Kim Schougaard) (08/30/88)
ldh@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM writes: >I ran into a similar problem here at work ... >We were able to boot fine off of the hard disk (CDC disk on a WYSE AT) until >we added (and ran) some shareware programs that we had received from one of >those mail order shareware distribution places). At that point, similar >simptoms ... no booting off of the hard disk ... just floppy, but C: is still >accessible after floppy boot. >The problem went away after a low level format ... but the real cause was never >found. I was never able to find the cause of the problem, or for that matter >understand what can happen to a hard disk that will not allow it to be >bootable (tried sys c:, high level formats ...) without a low level format. >Leo Hinds The thing that happend was that the programme changed the info in the partitiontable so that the dos-partition was not active. The problem could most likely have been cured by FDISK. Viggo at DIKU
ldh@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM (09/06/88)
>The thing that happend was that the programme changed the info >in the partitiontable so that the dos-partition was not active. >The problem could most likely have been cured by FDISK. > > Viggo at DIKU Not quite ... using FDISK, the partition was checked ... and everything was kosher ... leo hinds