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From: regoli@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help with recovering hard disk
Message-ID: <263@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: Thu, 7-May-87 10:43:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: silver.263
Posted: Thu May  7 10:43:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 10:37:43 EDT
References: <203@houxj.UUCP>
Reply-To: regoli@silver.UUCP (Michael Regoli)
Organization: Indiana University BACS, Bloomington
Lines: 23
Keywords: HD low level formatter

In article <203@houxj.UUCP> dck@houxj.UUCP (D.KWONG) writes:
>When I got several soft errors on my hard disk, I ran the
>surface analysis option of a formatter program on the disk.
>But when I got out of the formatter, I found that the entire
>disk have been erased!!!
>I have tried the DOS RECOVER command and Norton Utilities 3.0
>both were unable to recover any of my files.
>Is there any way to recover the hard disk contents?

for what it's worth, norton's latest edition of the utilities (v. 4.0)
includes "FR" -- format recover -- which allows the user to unformat
an accidentially-formatted hard disk.  success depends on whether the
disk was written to since the accidental format.

FR can be used preventively as well.  when run in preventive mode, the
program saves disk information necessary to recover from an accidental
format.

-- 
			    michael regoli
		   indiana university, bloomington
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