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From: harvey@nems.arpa (Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Recover from FDISK? (HELP!)
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Date: 18 Aug 89 16:27:27 GMT
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In article <24673@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes:
>Good point, although it isn't the DOS version per se.  My Zenith v3.21
>release, for example, doesn't supply `fdisk'; instead it supplies
>`part', and the documentation says "Any changes you make to the
>partition table with PART can destroy all existing data on your hard
>disk."  On the other hand, a partitioning program that I played with as

Although the Zenith documentation warns that changing the partition table
will destroy all data, it actually doesn't.  I have changed many partition
tables on Zenith Dos, v 3.11, 3.21 and 3.3 and have yet to lose any data.

Betty Harvey
David Taylor Research Center
harvey@nems.arpa