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sroberts@whanganui.ac.nz (Shane Roberts) writes:
>Hi Folks,
>
>Can anyone help me recover a Conner CP30104H IDE Hard Drive from 
>a low  level format?
[...]

the drive is probably fine, most IDE drives interpret the low-level
format to mean, write zeros to the tracks.  the thing is, you've
wiped out ALL of your data, and i believe the best you can hope
for is to re-partition and re-format the drive.  you need a bootable
floppy disk with FDISK and FORMAT on it.  use FDISK to partition
the drive and FORMAT /S to format and transfer the system files
to the hard disk.  otherwise, you're gonna need the the MS-DOS
or PC-DOS install diskettes.

i think you can kiss your data good-bye, unless you can afford
to pay a fortune to some disk/data recovery service.  it's not
likely much of anything can be recovered.

hmm, i'm not sure, but maybe Norton Disk Doctor or something like
that can rebuild the partition if it hasn't been completely wiped.

good luck, and next time, pay ATTENTION to what you're doing!
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