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From: bchs1b@jetson.uh.edu (Benedik, Michael J.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Trashed my hard drive
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Date: 13 Jun 91 16:09:06 GMT
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I was getting smartdrv.sys set up as a disk cache on my system
when I got an error message that the system could not read the
FAT table for drive C. I rebooted the system and now it does
not recognize drive C at all, I get an error message
"Invalid Drive letter"

Can any one tell me what is the problem and what I can do about it?
Is there any way to save the stuff on the drive? Nothing is irreplaceable
but it would take hours to reload all the software and get everything
configured correctly. I have Norton utilities (i think version 4)
which I tried running from the floppy, but it would not recognize the
drive either. 

All help greatly appreciated.
P.S. It is a 32 MB drive, I think RLL (but possible MFM).


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	 Michael Benedik
	 Department of Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences
	 University of Houston
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