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leeizzie@dnaco.net wrote:
> 
> To anyone who thinks they can help.  During a recent install attempt, Windows
> NT 3.5 hosed down our hard drive real good.  This crash happened during
> a conversion from MS DOS 6.22/WfWG 3.11 to Windows NT 3.5.1.
> 
> MS DOS 6.22 will not longer recognize the drive as existant. (FDISK will not
> recognize a fixed disk is present).
> 
> Windows NT will not recognize a fixed disk is present.
> 
> The fun part is that the user of this drive didn't back up before the
> attempted conversion and their is a file that absolutely must be retrieved
> from this disk.
> 
> Any body got any bright ideas or know of any utilities that might be able
> to recover data from this drive.
> 
> Drive is an EIDE Conner 540MB.
> 
> Please respond to ned.ludd@cpigeon.com or leeizzie@dnaco.net via email.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lee MalatestaLee, I e-mailed this to you, but am also posting it here for everyone.
I have been running NT at work for three years now, and my only 
suggestion is to restart the NT installation process from the boot 
floppy, but select the _recover_ option when it is offered early during 
the setup.  I had an experience similar to yours a couple of years ago, 
but the recover option saved me.  If this doesn't do it, then one more 
option might be to find a system already running NT, and try adding your 
hard drive as an additional drive to see if NT can read it that way.
I would also suggest that you make sure that the hard drive settings in 
CMOS are still correct.  If by some means your system has lost these, 
then neither DOS nor NT would be able to access your drive.
Good luck,
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