🚀 go-pugleaf

Don, you don't need anyone telling you that you ventured into deeper
water than you were ready for. There are some possible fixes but you are
so close to the edge (if not over the edge) that you really need to get
the machine to an expert.

There are ways to "unformat" a drive. It doesn't always work, but once
unformatted, the operating system can be replaced.

In the extreme, there are data recovery companies that can help. The
data is not gone but all the pointers that the system uses to locate it
are lost. These companies can recover the data with the pointers.
Downside is that this is very expensive. You'll be looking at over
$1,000. Hard to swallow but it depends on the value of your data.

Do not turn the machine on. Get out the phone book and make some calls.
You need a very qualified technician here. 

Best wishes.

--Chris McEwen		reply to:
  Socrates Press	socrates@sprintmail.com

tanman wrote:
] 
] Since my wife will be out of town until Mon, I decided to fool around
] with her computer and install win95 so I could play with it instead of
] using my system.  Well all hell broke loose and I had to uninstall it.
] All of a sudden the computer would not boot into the C Drive.  So
being
] a nitwit, I reformated the C drive hoping this would do the trick. 
But
] it still will not boot up in C.  I have to use a Emergency disk in the
] Adrive to boot up.
] 
] Then after I get the dos prompt in A, I cd to C and do a check on the
C
] drive using different utilities which shows the c drive is there and
no
] errors on it.  I used MSD, Norton, and PC Tools and they all show the
C
] drive is there and formated to 450 megs and everything in order.
] 
] However as soon as I take the emergency disk out of the A drive and
] power on I get the bios showing 32 megs of ram and then showing 1
fixed
] HD, 1 floppy drive, 1 Parrallel port, 1 serial port like it should,
but
] then it stops the screen is blank with a little blinking cursor in the
] upper left of the screen.  I have to ctl-alt-del and insert the
] emergency disk and then it works.
] 
] Can anyone help me out before the wife gets home so I can get this
] system working again.  All info would be appreciated.  I.   I will be
] monitoring the NG and Email very closely hoping some knowledgeable
] person can get me out of this fix.