Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!princeton!puvax2!6101778@PUCC.BITNET From: 6101778@PUCC.BITNET (Angus Christie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Panic! Hard drive crash. Message-ID: <1514@PUCC.BITNET> Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 22:21:36 EST Article-I.D.: PUCC.1514 Posted: Mon Jan 5 22:21:36 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Jan-87 20:58:57 EST Reply-To: 6101778@PUCC.BITNET Organization: Princeton University Computing Center, Princeton, New Jersey Lines: 11 Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article Uh huh. And I even PARKed it first. Oh well. The question is does anyone have any specs on the BIOS interrupt(s) which talk directly to the hard drive controller card? When I boot from a floppy (as I am forced to do), the system insists that drive C: is an invalid drive specifier. What I hope to do is read as much of the root directory and FAT as I can onto a floppy, then reFORMAT the thing, then try to restore the sectors. Am I doing the right thing? Am I asking lots of stupid questions? Am I whining? Thanks for listening, anyway.