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: {> 	Howdy,
: {> 
: {> 	The other day I was using Norton's SpeedDisk to optimize my Seagate(125MB) h
: {> problem persisted.  I backed up all essential data and decided to reformat
: {> my hard drive.  When I attempted this it got to the 279th clylinder 8th
: {> head and gave me an error message saying that it "Could not find the sector"
: {> I have tried everything I can think of.  Now I can't even access my hard driv
: {> to write information to it.  I tried to boot up with my MS-DOS disks but MS-D
: {> tries to reformat my hard drive and gets 29% of the way through to say "Error
: {> formatting hard drive. Press f3 to exit"  I tried to scan my hard drive
: {> for viruses but I can;t access it and I get a message (When I try to do a dir
: {> saying "Error INT 24"  Can anyone Help me?  I have no idea what to do. 
: {> 
: {> Thanks in advance for any help!
: {> 
: {> 				Greg

: try a bios level format via the debug command.
: -G=xxxx:5  where xxxx is the Hex address of the hd controller bios
: location.
: if this will not work, a last resort would be to take a large magnet
: to the hard disk, but this has to be done properly or you will cause
: or could cause more damage than has been done already.

: disclaimer: I am not responsible for your actions by directly applying
: a large magnet to your hard disk.

: if done correctly the magnet trick will wipe out everything on the
: hard disk _COMPLETELY_ and a low level BIOS format might succeed


:                                                        -David

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