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From: greg@mobius.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Help for trashed DOS disk
Message-ID: <1990Aug21.094541@mobius.Viewlogic.COM>
Date: 21 Aug 90 13:45:41 GMT
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Reply-To: greg@mobius.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin)
Organization: Viewlogic Systems, Inc., Marlboro, MA
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Hello all,

	I have just purchased Minix 1.3 from PH.  The system configuration is a
6 MHz IBM AT.  One
	1.2 MByte floppy, a 20 MByte hard disk (type 2 - C:) and a 30 Mbyte
hard disk (type 3 - D:).
	I just installed the 30 meg disk last night, intending on installing
Minix on it and keeping 
	DOS on the 20 meg disk.

	Well, I was playing around with Minix and created a 100 block empty
file system on /dev/hd0.
	Apparently, this trashed the COMMAND.COM on C:, because I can no longer
boot DOS from the hard
	disk (D: had been empty).  Does anyone know if something like NORTON
utilities can get at my
	files on the C: drive?  I don't really care if I have to extract the
files to D: and then 
	reformat C:.  Is there an easier way I can recover from this *stoopid*
(sic) mistake??


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Greg Larkin (ASIC Engineer)
Viewlogic Systems, Inc. (The CAE Company)
Marlboro, MA 01752