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From: ericb@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Trashed my hard drive
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Date: 14 Jun 91 06:47:33 GMT
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bchs1b@jetson.uh.edu (Benedik, Michael J.) writes:


>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).

  Sounds like you lost a partition. Use FDisk to recreate one. Boot off of a
floppy and see what's left. PCTools has a utility that will attempt to re-
construct the FAT (I have never been successful with this, but it's worth a
try) I am not familiar with Norton, I'm sure there's something available.
  Good luck.

-e.b.

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