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Article #11466

Re: I'll never hurt my CONFIG.SYS again!

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From: Stephen Dennison
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 17:00
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In article <39010007@hpopd.pwd.hp.com>, dcc@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Creswell) writes...
>You should be able to use FDISK or an equivalent to re-write the partition
>data on drive D: and that should ressurect it.
> 
>I can only think of one way to loose your d: drive and that would be if you
>had a device such as 'multivol.sys' missing.

If you formatted and partitioned your HD with Seagate's Disk Manager 
(ONTRACK), there's a dmdrvr.bin file that needs to be loaded at boot with 
a device command in config.sys.

Stephen

> 
>Cheers,
>	Dan
       "My life is a sine wave. Now, if I could just get the damned 
        amplitude down..."                         Stephen Dennison 
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From: afdenis@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison)
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Subject: Re: I'll never hurt my CONFIG.SYS again!
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