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Invalid Media Bit Error - CONTINUOUS!
Drumroll please.... And the answer IS... Bad IDE channel. Ya know, ya never think that a HDD problem could be with the friggin mobo, eh? Its always the drive's fault. My errors were that I never checked the drive in another machine and that I never tried a known good drive in the suspect...- andrewholko
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Invalid Media Bit Error - CONTINUOUS!
UPDATE: Using the manufacturers DFT <Drive Fitness Test>. The drive is reported to BIOS as a 10GB HDD <which is correct>. DFT Quick and Advanced tests all report OK, no errors. Erasing the MBR, and a Full Erase (write all 0's to the drive) return OK. I reboot and run FDISK. Here's an...- andrewholko
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Invalid Media Bit Error - CONTINUOUS!
Ok. IDE HDD, fdisked to erase and recreate the partition. No errors. Reboot and system freezes, it doesn't even reply "Invalid Operating System". SYS C:\ returns an error (unable to SYS to on disk ) Very odd. FDISK /MBR, no help...- andrewholko
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