Hard disk crash -- need help recovering

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From: Jeremy M. Schneider
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1990 04:19

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I have a friend who, while installing a floppy drive controller card, 
connected the 34 pin connector upside down.

After realizing his mistake (the floppies wouldn't stop spinning),
he installed it correctly, and discovered that the system wouldn't
boot.  

The RLL hard disk, which was being controlled by an MFM controller,
seems to have been corrupted.  

CHKDSK said: 

disk error reading FAT1
disk error reading FAT2
disk error reading drive C:

Nortons utilities was able to read some directories, but not
some others.

Do any of you gurus have any suggestions about how he might
possibly recover from this situation?

Please email.

Thanks.
-- 
Jeremy M. Schneider              jeremy@mips.com
MIPS Computer Systems            {ames,decwrl,prls}!mips!jeremy
930 Arques Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94086              408-991-7805 (work)

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