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Hi, Just a few possibilities. Some hard drives will cause the above message if the 0 track has been altered (written over) linux is well know for this and the only way I know to resolve this is to low level format the drive. A lot of 386 and early 486 Award BIOS machines have an option of hard drive utility. If you do you're all set. I chose a 3 for the interleave value. Try and boot the computer from the floppy, then run fdisk to see if you can reset the hd. Check to see if any of the jumpers are missing from the pcboard part of the drive. Try typing the drive manufacture and model in Alta-Vista and see if the specs come up. That usually works for me. If you have no set-up disk..... try the following on boot to get to the setup up Menu. 1) Hit CTRL+ALT+S or 2) Hit CTRL+ESCP or 3) Hit DEL Paul At 06:21 PM 2/7/99 +0100, royston hill wrote: