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From: timothym@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Timothy D Margeson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Reformat HD without losing data
Message-ID: <7063@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 6 Nov 89 18:23:58 GMT
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Reply-To: timothym@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Timothy D Margeson)
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In article <23690@cup.portal.com> rwp@cup.portal.com (Roger William Preisendefer) writes:
>I have heard of the existance of a program which can reformat a hard
>disk without losing the data on it.  Does anyone know the name of such
>a program?  If so, and you have used it, what do you think of it?

The program is SPINRITE... don't have the manuals in front of me and can't
recall the manufacturer. You'll find it in most good software shops though.


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