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Hard Disk Problems

If you have problems with your hard disk when you first start to

use it, make sure it has been set up properly. First check to see if

you can boot from the hard disk.

Can you boot from your hard disk? You may be missing one

of the MS-DOS system files needed to boot from the hard

disk. Turn off your computer. Insert a working copy of the

MS-DOS system diskette into drive A and turn your

computer on to boot from the diskette. Then log on to

your hard disk drive and make sure you have the file

COMMAND.COM in the root directory of your hard disk.

If not, use the COPY command to copy COMMAND.COM

from the diskette to the hard disk, and then restart your

system. If you do, use the COMP command to compare the

COMMAND.COM file on your diskette with the

COMMAND.COM file on your hard disk.

If COMMAND.COM is okay, you may be missing

IBMBIO.COM or IBMDOS.COM from the root directory

of your hard disk (these two files are hidden files that do

not

display when you list the files in the root directory

using the DIR command). To copy these system files from

your MS-DOS system diskette to the root directory of the

hard disk, log on to the diskette drive, type the following

command, and press Enter:

SYS C:

If you can boot from a diskette, but cannot access data

stored on your hard disk, you may have accidentally re-

partitioned or reformatted part or all of the disk. Use the

FDISK program to see if your hard disk has a bootable

(active) DOS partition on it. If it doesn’t, use FDISK to

create one. If it does have a bootable DOS partition, then

try reformatting your hard disk using FORMAT or

SELECT. Reformatting destroys all the data currently on

your hard disk, so do this only after careful consideration.

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