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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Accidental formatting of hard disk
Summary: No problem
Message-ID: <1532@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 2 Nov 89 14:27:30 GMT
References: <2968@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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  There is no problem recovering from a reformatted hard disk. Just
restore from the backup. If a high level format was done (DOS FORMAT
command), you may be able to recover some of the data using a package
like Norton Utilities. *Do not* put any files back on the disk if you
are going to try this, as you will destroy the previous information.

  How can anyone "accidentally" reformat a hard disk? Virus?

-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon