How do I create a BEER sector on replacement T40 hard drive?

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kkapoor · #1 Post by **kkapoor** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:03 pm

Hi,

I need to create a BEER sector on a replacement hard drive for my T40. I can not install the predesktop area on the replacement drive without this sector on my drive.

Any ideas on how to do this. I believe BEER is the acronym for Boot Engineering Extension Record.

Google search did not result in a tool or anything that I could run on a floppy to create this sector.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

matyst · #2 Post by **matyst** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:24 am

All you need to do to recreate the Predesktop Area is to boot from Recovery CDs with a blank (non-partitioned) hard drive installed. The recovery program will ask you if you want to recreate the hidden partition area.

kkapoor · #3 Post by **kkapoor** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:03 am

I tried that. However the recovery disks would not install the predesktop area . I constantly got the error that the discs could not read the BEER sector and then the computer would reboot automatically.

#4 Post by **GomJabbar** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:24 am

See if the following post will help.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/ibm ... 1431575eae

rssb · #5 Post by **rssb** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:43 pm

http://www.t13.org/technical/d98128r0.pdf

this gives information on the BEER & DoS and what they contain

How do I create a BEER sector on replacement T40 hard drive?

How do I create a BEER sector on replacement T40 hard drive?

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