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by febed 1279 days ago
Brings back memories. I remember my parents being astonished when little me fixed our old IBM PC/XT, which was not booting from the hard disk using a low level format „hack“ I found in a copy of PC magazine [0]. The trick was to boot from floppy first and trigger a BIOS interrupt to do the low level format.

[0] https://youtu.be/PW787WRG8h4