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Reviving a dead hard drive

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by ekebeauty

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I find it difficult partitioning a hard drive using a boot disk containing the file,fdisk.exe.
I received the message:
File allocation table bad,drive A.
I'll like to know if there is any means of reviving this hard drive.

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by dmiles

Use Search at top of page,look for Tech Republic article 200 ways to Revive a Hard Drive,it may provide something

by netuser

Maybe your boot disk is corrupted. Get a new copy from your installation cd. Partition magic is also a good alternative.

by thechas

If you are getting an error for the A: drive, you have one of the following:

Hard drive not recognized by the BIOS.
(or BIOS settings wrong for the drive)

Bad floppy disk.

Bad or dirty floppy drive.

There are links to fdisk tutorials atwww.fdisk.com/fdisk

Chas

by paulo.sedrez

This does not indicate a problem in your hard drive, but in your floppy.

Recreate the boot disk.

--Sedrez

by scooter computer

Your boot floppy appears to be corrupted. Get or make a new boot disk, (or 2 or 3!) and try again. Also, check physical cable connections to the floppy drive etc...

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