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Article #6441Help with Hard Disk
From: jgjensen
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:36
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:36
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OOPS, I did a major boefoo. Someone installed XLOCK ver 3.? on a PC I use at school a long time ago. XLOCK is a security system for PC. I think it writes over the .sys files so the computer must always talk to the Hard Drive Throught It. Anyway the other day I was cleaning up the hard drive. I deleted a file called XLOCKDAT.BIO. This apparently is an IO file used at boot up. After deleting this file, I shut of my computer. On my next bootup I started getting an Xlock error. Step 2 using Norton Utilities I went onto absolute sector and undeleted this file. This got me back on to hard drive for the day. I then set the attrib of this file to sys, hid, and read only. I thought I had fixed the problem. Day 3 I log in and cannot access the C drive. I can boot to a floppy but cannot access the C drive. I cannot format the drive, Norton Disk Doctor cannot locate any partitions, etc. I can only access using norton absolute sector. It tells me I can access a physical hard drive, but there is no logical hard drive. I tried to call Xlock in Georgia. Their Number is disconnected and there is no listing for them. There is suppose to be an emergency boot disk for XLOCK, but no one Knows where it is. How can I either recover the disk or reformat the disk? (Oh yeah, Im not a novice, but Im also not an expert on PCs, so if solution is complex tell me where to find reference info or help me by putting solution in dumb-user language) Thanks JJ
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!boulder!happy.colorado.edu!jgjensen From: jgjensen@happy.colorado.edu Subject: Help with Hard Disk Message-ID: <1992Nov19.123644.1@happy.colorado.edu> Lines: 32 Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet) Nntp-Posting-Host: happy.uccs.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Date: 19 Nov 92 12:36:44 MDT Lines: 32