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From: IO92203@MAINE.BITNET (Scott Maxell)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: I have a problem...
Message-ID: <91115.110026IO92203@MAINE.BITNET>
Date: 25 Apr 91 15:00:26 GMT
References: <2665@umriscc.isc.umr.edu>
Organization: University of Maine System
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In article <2665@umriscc.isc.umr.edu>, khawkins@cs.umr.edu (Kevin Hawkins) says:
>
>I have a problem that maybe you guys could help me with.  I accidentally
>removed the Command.Com program on my hard drive along with most of the other
>programs to other directories (yeah, I know...real stupid!).  I then rebooted y
>m
>system, and of course the hard drive wouldn't initialize, and when I  booted
>up
>dos on disk, it couldn't access the C: drive.  My question is, is  there any  y
>wa
>to regain access to the hard drive without reformatting it and therefore
>losing
>everything in there?

    One possibility is using the Norton Utilities or something similar to
unerase the files that you need. Since you said you were kind of illiterate
about the whole thing, I suspect that this may not be an option.
I'm pretty sure there are some shareware programs that you can use to do
this (unerase), assuming you couldn't find someone with the Norton Utilities
to salvage the information on your drive.

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