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From: poffen@chomolungma (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Accidental formatting of hard disk
Message-ID: <1989Nov7.214254.4054@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 7 Nov 89 21:42:54 GMT
References: <2968@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <2968@hydra.gatech.EDU> gb7@prism.gatech.EDU (Joe Bradley) writes:
>Someone just stepped into my office and asked me if it was possible to
>recover from an accidental reformatting of an internal hard disk under
>DOS. Not knowing the answer, I thought I would appeal to the wizards of
>the net. They're not even sure of the version of DOS they are running (it's
>an old XT). Any pointers to techniques or software which might help
>them recover their data would be appreciated.
>
>
>-- 

Get a copy of Norton Utilities. There is an "unformatting" program that works
well. It also has utilities for all sorts of things.
I got a copy of the Advanced edition and I love it. It is a little more
expensive than the standard edition, but worth it.

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