Anthony J. Albert wrote: > > 1. The hard drive has died > 2. The hard drive's data in the section which is used during start up >has become invalid or damaged. > > > With a machine this old is is also possible that the BIOS has lost the hard drive parameters. This is usually due to the battery wearing out, but may be due to a static charge resetting all of the bios values. The easiest check is to see if the computers clock will retain time and date information after it is powered off and unplugged for a while. Simply resetting the hard drive type in the in the Setup may fix the problem. Will the machine boot with a boot floppy?
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