unbootable HD, the solution

[Janina Sajka]

Many years ago the very same thing happened to me. It was on my work
system which had just been donated to my employer, World Institute on
Disability, by HP. This was in the early 1990s, and this was a smoking
machine for that time. In fact, it was my first hd that exceeded 1gB.
The cpu was a 486/33.

On that machine, the problem was intermittant. Sometimes everything
worked fine. Then, out of the blue, files were reported missing.

Of course, it was my fault. It was the speech. It was the screen reader.
It was the OS. It was the everything except what it was--a bad hd.
Finally, I got someone to replace the hd and never had a problem with
that system again.

Charles Hallenbeck writes:
> From: Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh at mhonline.net>
> 
> Hi gang,
> 
> I promised to let you know the solution to my puzzling problem a
> week or so ago about the unbootable hard disk. It turns out the
> guy at the computer store knew enough about Linux to look beyond
> his initial impressions, and discovered a defective hard disk
> after all. He replaced the HD with a new one and we are out of
> the woods at last.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> -- 
> The Moon is Waning Crescent (24% of Full)
> So visit me sometime at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175