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From: cdb@waikato.ac.nz (Craig D. Beere)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Recovering from FDISK
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.104207.3183@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 20 Mar 91 21:42:07 GMT
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I don;t know how you can recover from FDisk now, but I can suggest how you can
recover from it if you prepare beforehand...

PC Tools:
1. Run MIRROR/PARTN to save your partition info to a floppy disk.  You can get
   this back with RESTORE/PARTN.
2. Run MIRRIR heaps (like in you AUTOEXEC.BAT, your MENU.BAT, ...) to save the
   status of the root directory, both FATs and the Boot area of the disk.
   THis makes it heaps easier to recover from something drastic.

Norton Utilities has the same tools, I can't think of their names just now.

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** Craig D. Beere  (a.k.a. ++Byron)
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