ldh@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM (08/26/88)
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 UUCP: ldh@hdw.harris.com USPS: Harris CSD, ms #156, 2101 W. Cypress Creek Rd., Ft Lauderdale, FL 33309 AT&T: (305)973-5229