17 Oct
2000
17 Oct
'00
6:26 a.m.
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 THETechnoid(a)home.com wrote:
You can probably format the hard disk by loading DEBUG
from floppy and
entering the command:
"G=C800:5" - omit the quotes.
Can you damage a hard drive, if you put in the wrong numbers (# of
cylinders, interleave, etc)
I had an old 8088 that hadn't seen action in several years. I turned
it on, and it seemed to boot up and run ok, but the hard drive was full
of errors.
I thought, "Maybe a low level format will clean it up", as I had done one
a few years back on an old Leading Edge XT, and it seemed to help. So off
to Debug, and I did the G=C800:5 thing.
Of course, it asked for the number of cylinders, interleave, and a couple
of other things. Not knowing....I guessed!
After that I rebooted the computer---and---nothing! Not a peep out
of the hard drive, and the computer wouldn't start up. It would boot
off a floppy, but even then, the hard drive was unreadable...