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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 23:05:08 PST
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Subject: SCOUG-Help: Corrupted Partition Table

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OK every body. Here's the scoop on my hard drive partition table
problem. Thanks to Rollin at the 'hands on' help desk Monday night the
problem is solved. The sad part is the big clue was right there on the
BIOS screen at boot up. Other clues were available and even looked at
several times by yours truley and not picked up on. "Bloodhound" Rollin
sniffed out the problem as soon as he turned on the computer. He
pointed to the part where the BIOS detects the drives and simply asked
if that is where I intended the CD-ROM to be connected. Since it was
showing up as the slave on channel 1, I confirmed that it was not. It
should have been the slave on channel 2. Then Rollin proceeded to
rewire things correctly and I have joy. Much joy.

This is, in short, is what I did to cause the problem: when I installed
the replacemant board I cleverly connected the channel 1 drive cable
into the mother board's channel 2 connector and the channel 2 cable into
the channel 1 connector. Since the BIOS looks on the channel 1 master
for boot instructions it couldn't find it because it was now on channel
2.

Thanks, Rollin.

Sheridan

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