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December 28, 2001 at 06:16 AM
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HD problem: Is my Boot sector fried?

by cvn70_it2 . Updated 24 years, 5 months ago

There was recently a hard drive that I was attempting to fix that I was having some big problems with. I consulted TechRepublic, and read their ‘200 Ways to Recover a HD’, but that didn’t work, and neither did the ‘Troubleshoot HD problems in 7 easy steps’. The problem is that the BIOS would see that the drive is there, but not at the correct size. The size of the hard drive is supposed to be 20419 (20Gb), but is only showing up as 6831. I tried to fdisk, but was told that there were no active partitions. Tried to reload NT, but no joy, because I was being told that no HD was found in the system. I would greatly appreciate any input anyone has. I hope that it’s not fried, because this guy has stuff on his computer he HAS to have (but doesn’t everyone?). Thanks. IT2 A.J. Keech, US NAVY, USS CARL VINSON.

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