johnnydicamillo
Experienced Member
thanks soo much!!!!
It sounds like you didn't read one of my posts, post #20.nevermind thats for a 10mb
Yes (if all went as expected).after I do this should my drive show up in fdisk?
Did you see the hard drive light come on for a while?ahhh it still doesn't show up in fdisk
Exactly what does FDisk say? Does it greet you with an error, or is it just that no partition shows up?
So what do you reccomend I do?I confirm that the DEBUG code works as is.
I grabbed my 5160 with IBM/Xebec hard drive controller. I substituted the hard drive with an ST-225 from an XT clone. As expected, the 5160 then failed to boot (different low-level format). Attempting to read sectors on the hard drive using Norton Disk Editor (in physical access mode) also failed.
Using a DOS 3.3 boot floppy, I then ran the DEBUG code, then FDISK, then FORMAT. 5160 now booting.
As an aside, puzzled about the 'cylinder 0' versus 'cylinder 1' thing, I tried the DEBUG code quite a few times alternating between CX=0 and CX=1. It always failed when set to zero (and required an off/on before the hard drive became responsive again). And so it appears that interrupt 13 function 7, as implemented on the IBM/Xebec card, uses 1 for the first cylinder.
no partitions or my harddrive shows up, the only thing that shows up is the floppy
how would I fix the corrupted sectors if there is any,
or is my problem not fixable and do I need to buy another hard disk
1. Create Dos Partition
2. Change Active Partition
3. Delete Dos Partition
4. Display Partition Data