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

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From: John Burton
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 12:31
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In article <1991Jun27.160211.24349@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> afdenis@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov writes:
>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

Ummm...just to be picky...its NOT Seagate's Disk Manager (ONTRACK).
The *company* ONTRACK produces the software Disk Manager and Disk
Technician which it licenses to Seagate and *most* other disk
drive manufacturers (or possibly to the distributors of the drives
such as CompuAdd and Hard Drives International). Basically when you
purchase a hard disk of > 32mb (and often of > 20mb depending on the
company) you get a copy of ONTRACK's Disk Manager / Disk Technician...

I know..."picky, picky" and ... "who cares"

John

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| John Burton                                                        |
| G & A Technical Software                                           |
| jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov                                       |
| burton@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov                                        |
| jcburt@cs.wm.edu                                                   |
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Subject: Re: I'll never hurt my CONFIG.SYS again!
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