Re: Help! Windows NT hosed down hard drive.

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From: Peter Barker
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 00:00

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The only reason FDISK would not recognise the drive is if your CMOS
BIOS settings for the drive had become corrupted. Try fixing these
and see what you can see - if you are lucky both DOS and NT will see
the drive. At least you should be able to recover your file.
Hope this helps,
Peter Barker

In <4r0rv1$9sp@pike.dnaco.net> leeizzie@dnaco.net writes:

>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 Malatesta
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From: peterb@zeta.org.au (Peter Barker)
Subject: Re: Help! Windows NT hosed down hard drive.
Date: 1996/06/29
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