On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Arfon Gryffydd wrote:
> HARD DISK GUYS, explain this:
> I put the GRiD's CONNER CP3104 (100MB drive) in K6 Desktop and I could not
> get DOS to load onto it. I put it in a 486 machine (IDE not EIDE) and DOS
> loaded fine.
> I put a 402Mb Conner drive into thr GRiD and forced the geometry
> using a setup program and I kept getting a BOOT DISK ERROR. WHY?????
Probably because it was formatted under a different geometry. I would
suggest fdisk'ing the drive (delete and re-create the primary
partition) on whatever computer you want to install it on, then re-format
it under DOS.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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Received on Mon Jun 07 1999 - 16:35:22 BST