#HD's go bad
Gus;
I have had a problem recently with a Micropolis 2217A 1.6 Gig HD. On boot up,
it would be doing a chkdsk (DOS 5.0), and say stuff like "cannot cd to (some
directory)", and it would do this over and over and over. Then autoexec was set
up to do an "image" of the disk, and it would I guess overwrite the FAT, and my
FAT got all messed up. I used Norton a few times to fix the FAT, but finally
had to format the disk (I had backed it up luckily).
I thought it was one particular disk, but then it began happening on a second
one (replaced the first) in the same system. Now I have it sitting outside the
computer so I can change it quickly.
Could this be caused by 1. A bad controller cable? 2. A bad connection to the
controller card?
It seems to be one of these, and I purchased a new cable, but have not put it
in yet.
Thanks,
Dennis