Re: Data recovery

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From: John Ferris
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 00:00

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>> 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 
>
Funnily enough it didn't. IIRC it gave an 'incorrect parameter' error.
A reading from Drive Pro matched up with the auto detect in the CMOS
so I am assuming it to be correct :(
If all else fails I'll try what Mike suggests and setup the primary DOS
partition again.

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

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