HELP! Please?? Bad Hard drive.

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From: luwsm
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 14:14

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One of my two 10 meg disks on a Zenith 158 has gone south.  Is there any way 
to regain access to it given the symptoms below?  Would Spinrite II or OPTUNE
be of any use and could it have prevented this situation?

Currently, I get +++ Seek error when trying to boot from the disk.  Booting 
from the other HD I get no access whatsoever - drive not found.  When I 
first started dealing with the problem, I got the same boot message but was
able to access the drive after booting from A:.  But, I could only DIR the
root directory.  Couldn't do anything that involved a file access like CD, 
TYPE, execute, etc.  

Using NDD norton disk doctor and NE norton disk editor, the disk showed as
entirely Binary zero except for the root directory, boot sector and FAT.

Eventually, as I expected, I made things worse using NDD and NE.

Is there any hope?  Thanks in advance.	
Wayne Mery
Lehigh University
LUWSM@VAX1.cc.lehigh.edu
LUWSM@LEHIIBM1.BITNET

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Subject: HELP!  Please??  Bad Hard drive.
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Date: 22 May 91 14:14:31 GMT
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