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From: John Ferris
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:00

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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

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