Reformat the drive and reinstall the system. Do you have a norton Disk or
rescue disk? Check the disk for errors. You should be able to format it
with the disk tools from your O/S cd.
Brandy
----- Original Message -----
From: Donald E. Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of DuoList <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> At 12:45 AM -0400 1/21/00, DuoList wrote:
> >Message Number: 14
> >Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:27:28 -0800
> >From: "Brandy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: Duo 280c hard drive dies
> >
> Hi,
> My son has a Duo 250 and the other day he was surfing the web and the
> screen went dark and when he tried to reboot all he got was the question
> mark.
> I put it in my dock and used my emergency OS 7.5 disk (called Network
disk)
> and it booted up but no sign of his hard drive or its icon. Can the hard
> drive be reformatted or do I need to comepletely replace it. How do I do
> this? I've opened it up and have replaced keyboards but don't have any
> experience with hard drives in duos. Are the hard drives in a duo like
> those in a quadra or are they much smaller?
>
> Regards,
> Don
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