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In article <1992Aug14.104706.6067@iscsvax.uni.edu> kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
>HELP!
>
>I'm using a Mitsubishi MS-DOS compatible computer whose hard disk has crashed.
>I'm using it to control a POWER PLANT, get the magnitude of the problem?
>It's real important that I recover the software on it as I probably can't
>replace it.
>I've got Norton Utils, but when I boot from floppy, I can't access the hard
>drive (doesn't recognize its presence).
>
>Thanks much in advance.
>
>jim kraai
>kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu
>319-268-0320 or 319-273-5555
If you say "Oops", your boss will forgive you! :)
Seriously, some ideas:
- check your setup - is the hard disk type info. gone due to dead battery?
- if that is correct, check disk cables, try to replace the controller card;
  if you're lucky, it's one of these, and not a fatal disk crash!
- if these don't help, and Norton doesn't help, carefully remove disk and
  find a disk recovery expert, or your vendor/manufacturer and let them try
  to rescue your data.
- Good luck!

Once the crisis is over, why not have a redundant PC, with a mirror of the
hard disk, and tape back-up?  Sounds like controlling a power plant is too
important a task to not spend the extra $1-2K!! 
Can you let us know how you resolve this? I'm also curious about how you're
using the PC to control this power plant, what type/size plant, and what type
of customers (residential, industrial, university, etc.).
Any info. you can share would be much appreciated.

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Greg Sroka, Design Engineer and part-time MSEE student (S.U.)
Raychem Corporation, Menlo Park, CA