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sroberts@whanganui.ac.nz (Shane Roberts) wrote:

>Hi Folks,

>Can anyone 
>help me 
>recover a 
>Conner 
>CP30104H 
>IDE Hard 
>Drive from 
>a low 
> level 
>format?

>I was 
>preparing 
>the hard 
>drive for 
>installati
>on to my 
>computer 
>and
> used the 
>AMIBIOS 
>hard drive 
>format 
>utility, 
>oops, 
>didn't I 
>read some-
> where 
>that IDE 
>hard 
>drives 
>shouldn't 
>be low 
>level 
>formatted 
>and that
> some 
>drives had 
>to be 
>returned 
>to the 
>manufactur
>er if they 
>were? :-)

>Does 
>anyone 
>have a 
>programme 
>to aid in 
>bringing 
>this hard 
>drive back
> to life. 
> The 
>computer 
>doesn't 
>recognise 
>it and 
>Windows 
>3.1 says
> that it 
>doesn't 
>like the 
>HD's 
>driver.

>My system 
>is a 
>486SX25, 
>4Mb ram, 
>AMI bios, 
>running 
>MsDOS 6.22 
>and
> Windows 
>3.1.

>Many 
>thanks in 
>advance.  
>Any 
>assistance 
>would be 
>much 
>appreciate
>d.
> Thankyou.

>Shane 
>Roberts.


>Email:- sroberts@whanganui.ac.nz |
>        Wanganui                 |
>        New Zealand              |

You should be able to recover by simply doing a DOS FDISK and
re-formatting the drive. No data will be recoverable but the drive
should be OK.

Kevin O'Brien
PC Help
Petone