[DuoList] Mystery of the disappearing hard drive

[B G]

I would try a clean install of the OS.  This places all your old system 
files in a folder and install an all new OS

BG
On Oct 23, 2004, at 4:28 AM, James kilfeder wrote:

>
> I've had a mysterious problem with a new (to me) duo 280.
>
> I was trying to make a ramdisk, andput a system folder on it. I 
> rebooted, and the internal hard disk had disappeared. I've made a boot 
> disk, and rebooted from it. Still no sign of the hard drive. Then I 
> made a ram disk, and put my emergency boot disk system folder on the 
> ram disk. When I boot up off that, and run Norton disk doctor, disk 
> doctor will claim that there is no problem on my still invisible hard 
> drive(except that the system clock does not match the control panel 
> clock). When disk doctor has got near the end of its task,  as it 
> begins the last of the six boxes, checking files, the hard drive and 
> all its contents will suddenly reappear. Disk doctor will say that 
> everything's fine. But when I start up again, there's no sign of the 
> hard drive again.
>
> I've tried moving my emergency system folder onto the hard drive 
> (renaming the old system folder), and using the cdev 'startup disk' to 
> assign it. But still no joy.
>
> Anyone able to explain, or suggest a way out?
>
> James
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