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Re: Mitsubishi PC EMERGENCY!!!!!

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From: Glenn Forbes Larratt
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 04:30
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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).

	Just for the record: is your boot floppy, perchance, DOS 3.30 or
	less?  If so, and your hard drive is >32M, that might explain why
	you can't access it.

>
>Does anyone know any back doors into the system (like Zenith's
>control-alt-insert, anything like that?)  Any device drivers that I can load
>from floppy to help it recognize the hard drive?
>
>Thanks much in advance.
>
>jim kraai
>kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu
>319-268-0320 or 319-273-5555


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