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From: KOHLER@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Norton Disk Doctor vs. Disk Manager - HELP!!
Message-ID: <90323.131518KOHLER@GECRDVM1.BITNET>
Date: 19 Nov 90 17:15:18 GMT
Organization: General Electric Corporate Research & Development
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I recall a recent thread in (I hope) this newsgroup concerning Norton
Disk Doctor trashing D: logical partitions if they were non-DOS. At the
time I quickly scanned over them, thinking they didn't concern me...

A friend of mine installed a harddrive which came with Ontrack's Disk
Manager. This software apparently creates it's D: partition in a manner
which looks to Norton Disk Doctor as a non-DOS partition. He was
analysing his D: partition, pressed ENTER once too many times in haste,
and NDD defaulted to "YES - fix the 'bad' partition". All his files have
disappeared behind DOS's "General Failure Error on drive D:". None of the
things he has tried thus far have been able to retrieve the partition - I
believe it is the boot record that NDD found "bad".

My question: Did anyone come up with a solution to the problem short of
reformatting? Unfortunately he hasn't done a backup anytime this
semester...