BL> My WD250 hard drive wouldn't boot (DOS - HDD controller
 BL> failure).

 BG> With the current winter extremes of temperature, try reseating
 BG> all your ISA cards, particularly the HDD controller (or even
 BG> relocate it to another slot). Chances are that it's the
 BG> controller, and not the WD250 that's throwing the error.

  Thanks for that, Bill. That did occur to me, but it's only failed
once since, and I'm waiting to see exactly what happens. I'll wriggle
the shit out of every socket in the computer, the next time it fails.

  But the last time I lost a hard drive, it went the same way: an
occasional failure to boot, that slowly got more regular until it
wouldn't boot at all.

 BL> Bob (the inconsiderate prick) Lawrence.

 BG> I didn't know that there were _three_ of us! ;-)

  ROFL! Who's the other one? You and I only make two... unless you are
impressively endowed in the number of pricks department :-)

Regards,
Bob
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