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>   You may want to check that the BIOS correctly describes the drive.
>If this is set incorrectly then your 'sys c:' may have damaged part of
>the drive anyway.
This was one of the first things checked, using DRIVE PRO, to ascertain
that the drive had the same architecture as was setup in the bios.
>    The next thing is to take it to someone who is expert in these
>things - they might be able to recover the unit.
Not a lot of those about in this neck of the woods.
>
>   Otherwise you may have to join the long list of people who realise
>that backups are *important*.
I am already a convert, sadly those with whom I work are still on a
learning curve as far as backups are concerned.
>
>   I have to say here that *any* PC in a school should be regarded as
>'crash and burn'.  You should make *no* assumptions about what was on
>it last week - let alone long enough ago that Win3.x was current!
>
Generally I would agree with this, however, the PC in question was
normally only used by a few select staff and mainly for video
conferencing, hence it was never found necessary to upgrade the OS.
I have a small utility that can read the drive and show the files that
are 'recoverable'.

Many thanks
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John Ferris                                  
jferris@lamlash.demon.co.uk                  Lamlash
http://www.lamlash.demon.co.uk               Isle of Arran