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From: casper@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Compaq Deskpro 8086
Message-ID: <7700072@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 23 Sep 88 14:48:00 GMT
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Nf-From: osiris.cso.uiuc.edu!casper    Sep 23 09:48:00 1988


Have you tried going all the way back to the beginning?  Hard to say why
it doesn't work, but try a low-level format, then use fdisk, then do a
DOS format with the /s switch.  As a free added bonus you get to confirm
the bad tracks/sectors on your hard disk.

Of course, make sure everything currently on the hard disk is backed up,
except for system files.  (Obviously if you back up the system files in 
the root directory, do all the work to reformat your disk, then restore
the [old] system files, you wasted your time.) And I definitely do not
recommend copying boot sectors from one disk to another.