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In article <iP$JfAA0pmF3EwJi@lamlash.demon.co.uk>,
  John Ferris <jferris@lamlash.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> One of the brighter pupils at school managed to
> crash a 600Mb IDE drive on one of our Win 3.x PCs.
>
> On boot up it says operating system is missing.
>
> After booting from a floppy I can change to the C: drive
> but when I try to access it, I get invalid media.
>
> I know the solution is to reformat and reload DOS.
>
> Sadly we have no backups :(
>
> The question is can I recover somehow without reformatting?
>  I tried from boot disk  sys c:   I tried fdisk/mbr
>
> Anything else worth trying before I give them
> bad news.  (Cheap data recovery program)
>
> Thank you
> --
> John Ferris
> jferris@lamlash.demon.co.uk                  Lamlash
> http://www.lamlash.demon.co.uk               Isle of Arran
>
 I saw your posting and thought you may be interested in Recover98.Have a look
at http://www.phoenixware.com Contact me, Robert Burns at 888-447-1291 ext.163
if you need any assistance. Hope this helps you solve some problems in the
future.
Sincerely,
Robert Burns

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