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strange bad partition table?? with IBM value point 6384 L40 upgrade CPU to DX2-66
I add a maxtor 7213at hard drive to the ibm valuepoint 6384 L40. It works just fine. But when I upgrade the 486SX to 486DX2-66 (using its overdrive slot), The Bios can see the hard drive. But dos will not. So I run fdisk under msdos 6.2, make new partition. Then restart the computer. I format D:(the maxtor 7213AT) it finish format 100% Then it said, "bad partition table, format terminated". I restart the computer D: is not there. What really strange is if I take the DX2-66 from the overdrive slot and go back using the 486SX processor, restart the computer. D: come back and every thing just works fine.
Name: Tony Date: June 24, 2000 at 18:11:15 Pacific
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Summary: Some sort of disk repair utility is called for here. If you can (borrow?) Norton Disk Doctor (DOS version) you can, I think, check and fix the drive without formatting. The bad partition table will ...
Summary: when i turn on system it reads all the system info but i don't get know c: prompt...it goes straight to blank screen and says this.. invalid partition table see the person who had this try reformatti...
Summary: Amy, When you see that screen, the machine is looking for either an IBM "system disk" or some bootable disk. The IBM value points have a diagnostic disk available, but I don't know if the Aptiva's us...
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