Re: Dead in the water with bad disk partition - help?

[billy@MIX.COM]

> Even when trying to boot from the floppy drive, the machine will do
> the memory check and then freeze with the number 84 in the bottom of
> the screen.  It will boot to the floppy if the harddisk is displaced
> from the machine.

I don't know if 84 means a password error but if this is anything
like my 755 you could try booting the hardware maintenance diskette
which has a low-level format utility on it.  I bought the one I have
from IBM but I'd guess if it's available at all it'd also be on the
ftp host.

Billy Y..