Re: [freenet-chat] Spinrite 5

["Timm Murray" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm guessing there is something wrong with the hd itself.
No ammount of software will help but to delay the inevitable.
You'll need a new one.

Aaron P Ingebrigtsen wrote on 2/21/01 1:25 pm:

>
>On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 
>08:50:38 +1100 Revenant 
><revenant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>writes:
>> Again, have you tried 
>clean-installing Windows?  
>This often cleans  up
>> problems.
>
>How many times must I tell 
>you, clean installing Windows 
>will NOT fix the problem with 
>my second hard drive.  I 
>prooved that by booting to 
>my OTHER windows 
>partition, which I hadn't used 
>for MONTHS before this 
>thing happened.  How could 
>the exact same error occur 
>on BOTH versions of 
>Windows, AND booting from 
>diskette, if the problem can 
>be fixed just be reinstalling 
>Win95b on the Win95b boot 
>partition?!
>
>Think about that for a while, 
>then get back to me.
>
>The same exact error would 
>occur no matter What I do to 
>windows or DOS or Linux or 
>any other OS or program 
>you can possibly come up 
>with.
>
>Win95a and Win95b are both 
>able to read the third 
>partition on my second hard 
>drive because they both use 
>Protected Mode in order to 
>access hard drives.  Their 
>DOS versions use REAL mode 
>to access hard drives. 
>Protected mode can access 
>it, Real mode can't.  The fact 
>that real mode can't access 
>it is not a Win95b specific 
>problem.  It is a problem that 
>is universal for BOTH OSes 
>booting from SEPERATE 
>partitions.
>
>I bet that if I booted DOS 
>6.22 I would be able to access 
>the third partition on my 
>first drive, fat16, but not 
>my third partition on my 
>second drive, fat16, because 
>real mode can't get to it, and 
>DOS 6.22 never had any 
>Protected Mode drivers or 
>anything.
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