Re: TT Wont boot from HD

blah@xxxxxxxx wrote:

ID Check reports devices ACSI 0...7 & SCSI 0...7.1, no errors.

Does the ID check report any *devices*, i.e. devices names? Or does it just give you the list of bus names, without anything else?
Note that the ID check in HDDRIVER 8.1 is more sophisticated, and for checking IDs the demo version of HDDRIVER 8.1 (http://www.seimet.de/hddriver_english.html) will also do. It's probably a good idea to use the demo for the check in your case.

The drives(s) was partitioned using HD Driver v6.

Does it look like I'm looking at a corrupted hard disk driver?

First we have to know whether any device is actually found, see my note above. If no device is found there is something wrong with the hardware.
If the hard disk device is found but no partitions are detected the root sector may be corrupted. Current versions of HDDRIVER write a duplicate of the root sector to the drive, which can be used to restore the actual root sector. I am not sure anymore, though, if HDDRIVER 6 also does it this way, because it is rather old. The manual provides information on that.

As already mentioned by others the bootable hard disk driver is usually (but not necessarily) located on partition C:. If the root sector is corrupted no partition data is available, i.e. the hard disk driver cannot be loaded and booting from hard disk fails.

There is no mechanism to install a hard disk driver on a floppy, by the way. Just start the driver from the AUTO folder (hddriver.prg is located there) when booting or by double-clicking it.

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