Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!msriram From: msriram@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (M.G. SriRam) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Hard disk problem Message-ID: <20173@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 17 Aug 88 17:27:47 GMT Sender: msriram@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Lines: 10 Hi! i would appreciate hearing your comments on the following problem. I have a WYSE PC AT compatible, 12.5 MHz and i installed a SEAGATE ST225 hard disk in it. It worked very well for about 5 months and then it intermittently refused to boot from the hard disk. ie, afte counting up RAM it would hang. Also, when it did come up I would get 'sector not found' errors. The technical person at the place where i bought the hard disk told me that there was nothing wrong with the hardware, and that doing a low-level format on the disk would fix the problem. he also said that such a format should be done as a routine every so often, eg every 9 - 12 months. however, i am not fully convinced about this. what do you think? does it make sense?