Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 22:34:42 +0000 From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Another boot problem
Hi Dave,
I don't think that's it. The drive has been working for some 2-3 years at this point without the problem. I got a report back from IBM/Hitachi support saying that there's been physical damage to one or more physical heads. Bad sectors have been popping up in huge groups in the past few weeks, I suspect what they suggested makes sense. That somewhere along the way, a sector was marked ad bad that contained some boot code.
What's frustrating is that this only popped up after running a drive check utility. I'm going to see how much life I can get out of the drive at this point by loading W98SE at the end of the drive. At least I can use it to do MP3 testing without worry I'll loose the data. When it goes totally belly-up... so be it.
Matt (Have lost count of how many IBM/Hitachi HDDs of mine have failed at this point!)
From: "Fisher, Dave (IBM)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I would think it's something to do with the DOS cylinder limit.
It's something along the lines of if you're boot partition is beyond 1024 cylinders then the standard DOS boot loader cannot work. Obviously things like LILO, GRUB, NTLDR or, as in your case, Bootmagic are a little more up to date and work well.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 April 2004 08:51 > To: Libretto > Subject: [LIB] Another boot problem > > > Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:51:12 +0000 > From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Another boot problem > > Mine is more basic than Lee's. I only have Windows 98SE on > this 20GB HDD > I've been having so many problems with. With W98SE on the > 1st primary > partition, and a couple logical drives following it, I > created another > primary partition at the end of the drive. > > But no matter how I set up an OS on that last partition, > restored an image > there or just formatted and did a basic "sys c:", when the > system boots to > the partition it reports: "No operating system found" > > I finally got it to load by installing PowerQuest BootMagic. > Anyone know > why this may be? Thought I'd see how much more life I can > get out of the > dying drive before it goes totally belly-up. > > Matt > > _________________________________________________________________ > Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, > included with MSN > Premium! > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/mlb&pgmarket=en-us/go/onm00 200439ave/direct/01/
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