[quote]Originally posted by Sowulo:
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Logical Drive? Is this another partition on the same HD? If you're going to start over, I'd consider connecting a second physical drive and then doing the boot floppy thing to get to the DOS copy from c: to that second HD. Now you can safely wipe that flaked out install and redo the partitions at the same time (remove second HD before doing the full wipe just to be extra safe) just to be 100% certain there aren't any boot sector viruses, damaged partition tables, or any other nasty remnant of this little mess....</strong><hr></blockquote>

Yep, C: is the main partition on the disk. It was just a last ditch effort that didn't work. "Invalid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable. Format terminated." I can still access everything on the disk. Just can't boot from it or format it.

Your idea requires cracking the case, right? I can't afford to nullify the warranty. With the luck I seem to be having, if I did that, every single component would commit hari-kari within a week, and I'd be stuck with a $2000 paperweight.

Thanks a million jillion quazillion for your help. Unless you have other ideas (and I'll worship you if you do!), I've resigned myself to mailing it in for service.