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From: sloan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Dale Dean Sloan)
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Date: 1 May 91 06:32:45 GMT
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Subject: Help! My GVP/52Q harddrive is gone 
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For some reason, my harddrive partitions are no longer recongnized.
Heres what happened: I read on the net how you could decrease your boot
time by properly setting the last scsi id to be autoconfigured via the
FastPrep program.  I wanted to check this out, and (like an idiot) assumed
that FastPrep wouldnt do anything extreme without asking me.

When I started up FastPrep, I couldnt see my partition descriptions at
all; so I started to look for them.  Here is probably where I made the
mistake.  In the automatic format part, I hit the next scsi device button -
just to see the description, but the program said 'going to format and 
delete blah blah - Proceed?'.  I couldnt cancel this, so I turned off the 
computer.  I thought things would be fine, but apparently not.  Other things
I did (again, thinking it wouldnt do anything serious without verification),
where the read button on the manual format side, and the auto button; both
in the hope of simply finding my partition descriptions.

I am pretty confused over this, not to mention screwed (all my stuff is 
gone).  I havent re-formatted (there must be some way to get my data back),
so any explanation of what may have happened, or God willing a way to 
restore my drives will be GREATLY appreciated.  I'm kind of behind in
this newsgroup, so replying to me and/or the group would be nice.  Thank
you with all my heart and soul in advance.

Dale Sloan
sloan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu