hard drive prob

Leon Goldstein metapsych
Mon Dec 12 12:22:38 PST 2005


Bob Hemus wrote:

>Folks, I have a hda problem...  Years ago I formatted it with Caldera
>2.2, 2.3 or eD2.4??  I think the MBA is DrDos?  Any way I can't get
>win98 to install.  The reason I need windoze is for the software for my
>insulin pump/blood glucose meter.  The hard drive is a Western Digital
>8.4 Mb.  I have a WD floppy with Data Life Guard that has a program to
>fix the disk and reformat it.  All I can do is get the c/h/s of the disk
>which is different from the fdisk here.  
>
Bob: check your computer's BIOS and see if the hard drive spec is set to 
"auto" or if the /c/h/s values are manually set.

BTW it is "a" hard drive since the "h" is vocalized.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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