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cncst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Christophe N. Christoff) writes:


>I have PC/AT compatible machine with Seagate hard disk paritioned
>into drive C and drive D.  I ran Norton speed disk for both drives
>and I was successful on drive C, and got message saying something
>like "incomplete....., run Norton Disk Doctor".  Then, I ran 
>Norton Disk Doctor on drive D.   What happened was NDD was trying to
>read forever, and never return the control back to DOS.  I had to 
>turn off the machine after very very long time.  After I turned on
>the machine again, drive D was bad.  I cannot use it, and I cannot
>even get a directory on the drive D.

>How can I fix this problem?  I hope I can recover something back
>from drive D.  Any suggestion I can try?

In my experience, the Norton utilities do not work well with non-DOS
compatible partitions.  In fact, I have had to reformat my entire hard
disk because NDD was trying to "fix" the IBM signature on my D: partition.
I have a Seagate ST-241-1 (42 meg) partitioned into a DOS (and thus
Norton) compatible 32-meg C: partition and a non-DOS (and non-Norton)
10 meg D: partition.  If your setup is anything like this, I would highly
recommend against trying to use any DOS type utilities on your D: partition.

When this happened to me, as I indicated above, I had no success in
reclaiming the information on the D: drive.  At that time it just seemed
simpler to reformat the entire drive rather than take risks with unknown
information written in strange places on an unstandard partition.

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