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In article: <iP$JfAA0pmF3EwJi@lamlash.demon.co.uk>  John Ferris 
<jferris@lamlash.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> 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)
Did the sys work, or error out?. Hopefully the latter. The 'most 
likely' cause of this problem, is having the drive parameters set 
incorrectly in the CMOS. Unfortunately if you _write_ to the disk 
with the settings wrong, it will almost invariably trash something...

Best Wishes 

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