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- From: cs000rdw@selway.umt.edu (Richard D Warner)
- Subject: Low-level format of 400MB drive
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.214623.1229@selway.umt.edu>
- Organization: University of Montana
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:46:23 GMT
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- Our power went off a few weeks ago and since then our color station
- won't boot properly. I have to tweak it a little bit every time the computer
- goes through a hard reboot, but can get it running. I have the CD-ROM drive
- and have loaded 3.0 but that didn't fix that problem. Also, the error log
- lists a couple hundred files with messages such as, "couldn't copy", "couldn't
- make folder", and {my favorite:->) "couldn't change settings on". It looks
- like hard disk damage to physical blocks, and in fact fsck says there are
- some unresolved problems. Has anyone out there done a low-level format
- or surface analysis? What is the trick to loading 3.0 if you are working with
- an empty hard drive? Obviously you must boot from the CD-ROM. Any help on
- this would be appreciated.
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- Rich
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