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I've searched 9000 newsgroups and this seems the closest to 
the subject.  Last summer, with temperatures as high as 113 
Fahrenheit, one of the two 1.2 Gig hard drives (Western 
Digital) to which data was being written suddenly went 
bonkers.
 
The dealer decided the Pentium system was running too hot 
and installed an additional fan (for the CPU) and 
reformatted the Drive D:.
 
Everybody told me at the time that my ASCII capture file 
data was permanently lost and nothing could recover it.  
However, PC TOOLS V. 7 had no trouble showing me all of the 
data using the Hex editor and it was possible to search 
throughout 400 megs of data for specific information.
 
But what I would like to do is to turn the completely empty 
disk drive into something like 120 10 Meg data files which 
could be moved to floppies, tape or whatever.  The data is 
quite redundant for the most part and compresses 99% with 
PKZIP from my experience with similar data on another 
computer.
 
Is there some method by which an artificial FAT can be 
written either by hand or through some inexpensive program 
so that the data is packaged into files?
 
There is no need to salvage any executable files nor to even 
be able to see those.  Everything that is useful is in the 
form of ASCII capture files. 
 
I've avoided using the drive until I could come up with a 
solution but I'm about ready to give up.  Help would be 
greatly appreciated.
 
Regards
Donald Erickson
erickson@csnsys.com
 
Comstock Net, serving Riverside and San Bernardino counties 
of Southern California from Rialto.  (909)877-6407 voice.