Re: unformat HPFS-disk URGENT!

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From: Caroline E Evridge
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 00:00

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Hello Heinz,

You say the disk is HPFS file system.  Is this a mistake and is the disk
NTFS formatted?

Norton Utilities won't help you recover from this.  Try a Data Recovery
service such as DriveSavers or OnTrack.

Thanks for writing,

Caroline E Evridge
Symantec Product Support

Heinz A. Krebs Dipl.-Ing. wrote:

> servas!
>
> we have the following problem on our system:
>
> a virus (parity B) infected our winnt4-system. so we partitionated and
> formatted the harddisk 1. due to unreasonable things the harddisk 2
> became UNPARTITIONATED (we didn't change anything with this disk except
> hanging it form primary slave on secondary master bus). so we created a
> new partition with the diskmanager. now the disk ist unformatted and
> can't be accessed from the filemanager (unknown filesystem). chkdsk
> says: the filesystem is RAW.
>
> is there any possibility to UNFORMAT the disk, so that the files can be
> accessed? the last backup has been made over one month ago and some
> files are needed!
>
> any suggestions??
>
> ciao
>   H.

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From: Caroline E Evridge <cevridge@symantec.com>
Subject: Re: unformat HPFS-disk         URGENT!
Date: 1997/11/11
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