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From: flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU
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Subject: Re: Help with recovering hard disk
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Date: Sat, 9-May-87 22:23:26 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  9 22:23:26 1987
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Reply-To: flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU (Margot Flowers)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Keywords: HD low level formatter

>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?

Mace Utilities 4.0 is advertised to include an UnFORMAT command which
will recover usually 80-90% of an accidental format (and 100% if you
already have MACE installed).  Their order number is 800-523-0258.