Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!rpi!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!cybrspc!roy From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: FDISK.EXE disaster Message-ID: Date: 6 Mar 91 06:22:42 GMT References: Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN Lines: 28 jzl@micasa.UUCP (Jack Z. Lupic) writes: > The answer to that one is easy. Just buy a legitimate copy of MSDOS > and you'll get FDISK with it :-) Smiley or no, that's a pretty mean comment, Jack. Perhaps the gentleman _has_ a legitimate copy of DOS, but hasn't learned the lesson of frequent backups yet. Heck, I found my main DOS floppy incapable of booting last week... fortunately, I had a backup. > Once you have a copy of the DOS system disk, erase your FDISK.EXE and > then copy FDISK.EXE from your system disk to C:\DOS or wherever > you keep your DOS files. Hopefully the new FDISK.EXE won't get copied > over the same bad sectors. Had you read carefully, you'd discover that the problem is obviously with his floppy copy of DOS. He said nothing about bad sectors on the HD. > The other lesson is: BACKUP before you wipe anything out or do anything > that will destroy your valuable data. But of course, I must agree with this suggestion. Frequent and complete backups are a must. They're often the only means of disaster recovery. -- Roy M. Silvernail -- roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu - OR- cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu perl -e '$x = 1/20; print "Just my \$$x! (adjusted for inflation)\n"' [space reserved for clever quote]{mail your submissions}