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Re: GNO Trashed my Hard Drive!

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From: James L. Brookes
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 20:39
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In article <1993Jan8.192350.29077@news.csuohio.edu> damin@habermann.cba.csuohio.edu (Greg Boehnlein) writes:
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>	Can any of you GNO guru's explain why this simple mistake caused
>GNO to trash my Hard Drive btimap???
>
>tc &

Very weird.  This shouldn't cause any harm at all, actually...

>I KNOW that you shouldn't background Telcom and still try to use the
>shell, but it was an honest and simple mistake. Now I have lost
>EVRYTHING on the 85 Megger including chunks of the partition map!

Ouch.

>Is there some way to prevent this from happening in the future? And why
>WOULD it do this?
>
>SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT! Welp..I guess it's time to re-install all that
>software I was planning on...

I guess...this is quite odd, have you tried to use any recovery software?
You might be able to get some files back...
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