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shm@phoenix.syl.nj.nec.com (Shailendra Majmundar) writes:

>> My 330 meg MAXTOR ESDI HD is loosing charge very fast and my
>> partition table on MS DOS 4.1side is corrupted giving me "MISSING
>> OPERATING  SYSTEM" message after controller RAM initializaton.
>> The HD is devided 50/50 in DOS and unix and the unix partition
>> is fine. Could some one give me any tips on how to salvage the
>> machine?

>First of all, let me thank to all those who whole heartedly tried to pull me
>out of the ditch. Sorry to say that despite all the efforts, my dos partition
>is still a dead duck. The following things are tried after getting expert
>advise on the net:

>1. DT. MACE and NDD are unable to find drive C. So I can't use those 
>   programs.
>2. FDISK shows only the second partition, that is the unix partition. I am 
>	 able to activate it and go to the unix, which works fine. In unix, if I 
>	 run simultask and go to DOS and do FDISK, I see both the partitions but
>	 they are marked as non-DOS. If I activate the first partition (which used
>	 to be DOS), I get the same message "MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM".
>3. An effort to transfer SYS to  c: also failed with a message "Invalid
>	 drive type".
>4. NU shows the following :

>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  System Boot Starting            Ending             Relative number of 
>              side cyl. sector    side  cyl. sector  sectors  sectors
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>    ?    Yes   1    0     1        15   323   60          60   310980
>    ?    No    0  324     1        15   648   60      311040   312000 
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>5. Changing System in the above table from ? to DOS-12 or DOS-16 did no
>	 good.

>The drive is Maxtor 330 mg ESDI (model # 9380E) with 1224 cyls and 15
>heads. I think what needs to be done is to somehow calculate what should
>be the right starting and ending sectors, cyls and sides and edit the
>partition table from NU. Any suggestions??
yes i know i should have deleted the stuff above, but i didn't.
so go away.
have you tried on track disk manager to rebuild the partition table,
and then mace to recover the data? you may need to rename directories
when done but i've done similar recoveries with this method.
bill pociengel
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bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu